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...businessman came in saying he had been to Kansas City. "They got Coke machines there that talk to you. They say, Thank you' and 'Have a nice day' and 'Sorry, that nickel is bent,' that sort of thing. There were country boys there buying Coke they didn't want, just to get the machines talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arkansas: Whittling Away | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Hart insists that the Democratic Convention will not pick Mondale if he loses every primary this week, no matter what the delegate total. But Hart seems bent on self-destruction himself. In a classic campaign boner, he exposed his sarcastic side at a fund raiser in Los Angeles. The "bad news," he told a well-heeled audience standing on the lawn of a Bel Air mansion, is that he has to campaign apart from his wife Lee. "The good news for her is that she campaigns in California while I campaign in New Jersey." When Mrs. Hart interjected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Call, and Out Reeling | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...Harvard's expansion is concerned, we did not have much success. The affiliated hospital complex--now called the Peter Bent Brigham and Women's Hospital--has been built. My class agent reports that the University's coffers are full and the alumni ready to pledge. Especially when compared to some of the other victims of the 1960s--the destitute University of California, the scattered remnants of the dissected Sorbonne, the catatonic spray-painted Italian universities--Harvard has indeed prospered. The alumni magazines and donation solicitations bear witness-among others, buildings such as a new library, underground it is true, with...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Getting the questions right | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

With the gradual recognition that participation in the Olympics does not provide an effective opportunity for political expression, nations bent on political manipulation of the Games have recently taken the opposite tack staying away are left particularly satisfied...

Author: By Charles Altekruse, | Title: =Playing Olympic Games= | 5/16/1984 | See Source »

...Spokesman Larry Speakes contended that the Administration had not taken sides in the runoff election between Christian Democrat José Napoleón Duarte and ARENA'S Roberto d'Aubuisson. But in a speech on the Senate floor, Helms expanded his attack, contending that the State Department "bent over backwards to facilitate a Duarte victory" and that a member of the U.S. embassy staff in San Salvador told ARENA officials the U.S. would not support D'Aubuisson if he won. State Department officials rejected those charges as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Taking Sides? | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

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