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...conference was "nothing more than pleasant chit chat," said Carter, a minister of a church in Beverly, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speakers Review Geneva Results | 12/11/1985 | See Source »

...four friends, having heard about the cheeseburgers and French fries served at the embassy's snack bar, had arrived to have lunch. "They wouldn't let us in," Amy said. The snack bar, it seems, is open only to permanent members of Moscow's American community who purchase chits. Had Amy identified herself as a former resident of the White House? "Of course not," she said. She sat waiting until a Moscow-based American TV correspondent finished filming nearby. Then, armed with the proper chit, he escorted Amy and her friends past the Marine guard and treated them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 2, 1985 | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

ROYAL SECRETS TAKES US step-by-step through the "downstairs" of Buckingham Palace, Sandringham, and the other Royal residences, dropping harmless chit-chat at every turn. Prince Philip, we harm, visits the kitchen regularly to berate the cooks. Prince Charles hung out there as a child, but by the time he reached 30 he had forgotten the way. Lady Diana, captive in the palace before her wedding, spent so much time in the pantry that The Yeoman of the Glass and China finally threw her out. "Through there is your side of the house. Your Royal Highness," he said, pointing...

Author: By David L. Yermack, | Title: Royal Blues | 4/20/1985 | See Source »

...coin-operated, pay-as-you-go system in the Houses--whereby students frantically stick quarters into machines every 15 minutes--is, simply put, a pain in the neck and uneconomical. Students last year avoided the coin-ups in droves. Some kind of time-sharing or chit system makes a lot more sense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Fairness Issue | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...coin-operated, pay-as-you-go system in the Houses--whereby students frantically stick quarters into machines every 15 minutes--is, simply put, a pain in the neck and uneconomical. Students last year avoided the coin-ops in droves. Some kind of time-sharing or chit system makes a lot more sense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Fairness Issue | 9/13/1984 | See Source »

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