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Fears that available programming will soon disappear have sent the home satellite business into a nose dive. Sales of dishes, tooling along at about 70,000 a month last autumn, fell to fewer than 15,000 in January. Bert LeCroy, owner of Sky Search Video in the Atlanta suburbs, estimates that ten dish dealers in the area have closed their doors in just the past two weeks. Many consumers are upset that the costly dishes they bought in pursuit of video independence may turn out to be duds. Says Vincent Morgan, 41, who has a dish in the backyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Captain Midnight's Sneak Attack | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...previously announced gathering is expected to take place in autumn in the hometown of St. Francis, the founder of the Franciscan order, which has made peace a special goal. No date has been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pope's Easter Message Assails Abortion | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

Knowing how to do six days' work in a night, or in this case, 13 weeks' work in a night, is the most marketable skill we could ever have. And Harvard teaches it to us better than anywhere else. All through the beauty of the New England autumn, we know we never have to suffer through Lipsey & Steiner or "The Origins of American Politics." Like a safe harbor off on the horizon, reading period beckons us, inviting us to sleep through that stultifying section, ignore that optional problem set, leave our textbooks undisturbed in the Coop bag. When January comes...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Examining the Schedule | 3/12/1986 | See Source »

...curious began to arrive. They found a half- eaten bowl of caviar and the hospital bed and medical equipment of a sick man. They gawked at the scores of pairs of shoes of a rich woman. One visitor was reminded of a line from the Japanese poet Basho: "Autumn leaves, the remains of a samurai's dream." Eustacia Soliven, a Manila dentist, reflected later, "Maybe we have learned something from all this. After all, the best things we see in France are the reminders of the excesses of Kings." A few came to plunder and destroy. One man threw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Escape From a Gilded Palace | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

ABONG FOR McKinney (our green-thumb friend, Larry) Too bad of your scheme Harvard found itself wary. For ghost-ridden common room dwellers a wink, And for all autumn-lovers a pumpkin-filled sink. For upperclass prefects a few good cold showers, And a few common rooms for the Mather gang's towers. An off-campus shelter for each Cabot dweller--And a quick painless end to the noise in the cellar. Some new ideas for the House Committees Who can't hold keg parties in such a strict city, And for all those upholding the laws against drink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Hit List | 12/19/1985 | See Source »

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