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...TIME's first issue, dated March 3, 1923, some of its departments bore such whimsical names as Imaginary Interviews, Point with Pride (the good news) and View with Alarm (the bad news); they proved short-lived. The hard-news departments have all gone through name changes: National Affairs (now Nation), Foreign News (now World) and Finance (now Economy & Business). Many of the original sections, however, including Art, Cinema, Education, Music, Religion and Science, still appear under their original headings. These sections have been joined by several successful newcomers. Modern Living, now called Living, began looking at American mores and manners...
...Sizemores, there was no question where Old Red's remains should rest: they put him in a sack and bore him to the Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard, where the rich totemic significance of the breed has been celebrated since Sept. 4, 1937, the day Troop, a coon dog of towering integrity, breathed his last. Key Underwood, who owned Troop and loved him like a son, put the dog in a 6-ft.-long cotton-picker's sack and brought him out here to the piney woods in the northwestern corner of Alabama and buried him in a hole...
Students in Canaday Hall did follow instructions to put heavy tape on their windows in case they shattered, but more than a few seized the opportunity to offer commentary on the occasion: one window bore the legend "Gloria we luv ya." The back of one Weld North window sported the message "YIKES...
Newsweek reveals Nixon's significant role in the Reagan reelection campaign. Germond and Witcover unveil their requisite scoop, that Mondale's campaign staff engaged in some utterly irrelevant shenanaigans that bore a passing resemblance to l'affaire Watergate. To simplify, a Mondale staffer stole and then returned a book tabulating the flow of Pennsylvania labor money through the campaign apparatus to the ostensibly unaffiliated Mondale delegate committees. Though Germond and Witcover lack the requisite irony to appreciate it, the episode says much more about the idiocy of campaign finance law than it does about the ethics of the Mondale campaign...
Gold has won some important converts to his brazen idea. The Swedish government, with support from the U.S. Gas Research Institute, is expected to invest $14 million to bore 15,000 ft. into the granite bedrock of Lake Siljan in central Sweden, in the hope of finding vast stores of natural gas. Reason: the lake was formed when a meteor slammed to the earth 360 million years ago, possibly fracturing the bedrock and allowing gas to percolate upward. Says William Staats, director of basic research at the Gas Research Institute in Chicago: "We believe that there is enough at stake...