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...development office is now scrambling to find the right donor. The undying fame of getting one's name on a house, "isn't going to do it by itself," says Reardon. The University's top fundraiser says he hopes that alumni will "sense this real opportunity to bring that cluster of houses into the programs and educational opportunities all other houses have...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: "Getting Over the Stereotype That We're Rich" | 6/3/1986 | See Source »

...based Gallery Furniture, was struggling to survive when he launched a madcap campaign in 1982. Although lacking in broadcast experience, McIngvale ad-libbed spots in which he blabbered as fast as he could for 55 seconds and then, in the last five seconds, leaped into the air holding a cluster of dollar bills while shouting, "Gallery Furniture really will Save! . . . You! . . . Money!" Since he first went airborne, McIngvale's sales have soared 1000%. Says he: "It saved the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Now, a Gag From Our Sponsor | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

Something indeed. After analyzing the light from the distant sources, Turner and seven other scientists concluded that they had apparently found evidence of the most massive object ever detected. That object, they surmise in a report published last week in Nature, could be a huge cluster of galaxies or a black hole far larger than any ever anticipated. More startling, it might be a "cosmic string," a bizarre, hypothetical remnant of the chaotic birth of the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Through a Lens Darkly | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...Silvers lashed out against the CRR--the same committee which could punish protestors who engage in similar acts of civil disobedience--he addressed a small cluster of 150 protestors beside University Hall, where almost 17 years to the day, another act of en masse civil disobedience gave rise...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: The CRR: Whose Rights, Whose Responsibilities? | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...Roland Gamache, 32, was struck by the disease. He lived next door to the Zonas. In all, 19 cases of leukemia, five of them fatal so far, were reported between 1969 and 1983 within six blocks of the Anderson house in what became known as Woburn's "leukemia cluster." The purported source of the problem: toxic industrial solvents in two wells that served the neighborhood. Who dumped the contaminants and whether the pollutants led to the deaths are the subjects of a lawsuit against W.R. Grace and Beatrice Foods being tried last week in U.S. district court in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deadly Water | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

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