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...disconnected more than Hinsdale. More than half a million other suburban residents could not make long-distance calls, or even ring up nearby Chicago. O'Hare Airport endured two days of flight delays when controllers lost contact with the air-traffic control center in Aurora, Ill. From posh Oak Brook, where companies like McDonald's have their headquarters, to the high-tech corridor along the East-West Tollway, circuits were jammed for days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander Graham Bell, Call Home | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

Campaigning in New Jersey, Dukakis sought to capitalize on this advantage: he walked with a hand-held microphone among 500 students at the Pine Brook Junior High School in Manalapan to preach an antidrug sermon. At a later press conference, he once again criticized the Reagan Administration for cutting funds for antidrug programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking the Unthinkable | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

After graduating from the Goodman School in Chicago as a young woman, Hunt moved to New York, where she "did nothing for a long time." Much of her career has been spent on New York stages, and she recently finished an engagement as Charlotta in Peter Brook's acclaimed adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, which played at the Brooklyn Academy of Music until last week...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Head-Hunting | 4/29/1988 | See Source »

Cleveland (61-101, AL East, seventh): Bill Caudill, Greg Harris and Bill Laskey--what a pitching trio. Joe Carter and Brook Jacoby (.300, 32 HR, 69 RBI) can both hit 70 homers and the Tribe would still drown in Lake Erie. Best player: Carter...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: A Guide to the 1988 Baseball Season | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

Those who have seen him perform might disagree. His performance in Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage and Cries and Whispers and in Tarkovsky's Nostalgia and The Sacrifice have won Josephson universal acclaim in Europe and the United States. And those who have seen him perform in Peter Brook's production of The Cherry Orchard--his American stage debut--know that he is equally powerful on the stage...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Swede Memories | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

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