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...also imperative to keep major decisions confidential until the conditions are ripe for announcement. This is especially true within the political, back-biting world of Washington. The President's proposal for Homeland Security may not be perfect, but it is a step in the right direction. RICHARD J. RANDAZZO Bluffton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 8, 2002 | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...didn't have the talent to pursue music professionally. Then I wanted to become a stenographer so I could count on making money. My mother thought I should be a music teacher; that was somehow more acceptable. What happened in reality was I fell in love with someone at Bluffton College and got married. We had five kids. After that, it took me a few years to realize that my husband couldn't make a living. He was very bright but emotionally crippled. In one year, he held 17 jobs. Living with that was really scary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Points: Risky Business: How a book helped a housewife jump-start a pioneering career as a comic | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...country town of Bluffton, Ga., robbers broke into a grocery store, lined up the four employees and executed each with a shot in the back of the head. That week five other people were killed in the rural areas of Georgia. According to a Harris poll taken in March, Southerners are more worried about crime than other Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE CRIME WAVE | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

...supplied by NASA. The sets could accompany the closely confined and womanless crew the U.S. may send on a two-year mission to Mars before the end of the century. That would enable the Mars astronauts to engage in the longest-established, permanent floating space game in history. Says Bluffton College Psychology Professor (and Monopoly Fan) William J. Beausay: "All men have to have a strong motivator to compensate for loss of sex for two years." The board, no doubt, will be redesigned to take note of such choice Martian real estate as Elysium, Electris, Hellas and Nix Olympica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Monopoly in Elysium | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...German chemical plant may be a cause for concern to Hilton Head Island [Jan. 26], but it's a nightmare to Bluffton, only two miles from the plant site. As I see this village about to be engulfed by a huge industrial complex, I must register my protest against this giant leap backward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 16, 1970 | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

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