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...Conrad Olson and Cheryl Barrell, who are both seniors now, first romance has turned into a lifetime commitment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The (Almost) Newlywed Game | 4/28/1983 | See Source »

...were both living in Hollis," Conrad says, "and we started going out in November. From there we blocked together and both moved into North House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The (Almost) Newlywed Game | 4/28/1983 | See Source »

...only time we've really been separated for a long period," Conrad continues, "was during our first two summers apart. But in the summer of our junior year, her parents moved to my hometown--San Diego--and we both end up working on the same campus at the same university and in the same building, at the University of California...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The (Almost) Newlywed Game | 4/28/1983 | See Source »

Against such atrocities, civilized people with good prose styles reach for the requisite quote from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Didion repeats the line from Kurtz's report to the International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs: "By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded." The U.S. embassy gives the author a more sophisticated version of this 19th century optimism. The exercise of will and power now reuires a public relations consultant. Says one embassy official: "We could come in militarily and shape the place up. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wisps of War | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

Kostelanetz, who has given tax advice to such notable figures as former Vice President Nelson K Rockefeller and former Pennsylvania Senator Hugh Scott, cites the case of RCA Board Chairman Anthony Conrad. He had spent 30 years rising through the ranks and was earning a salary of $250,000 when it was disclosed in 1976 that he had not filed an income tax return in five years. Strangely enough, Conrad had paid $684,000 in withholding taxes and always managed company affairs with great prudence. On Kostelanetz's advice, Conrad resigned and retired to Maryland. He has since filed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheating by the Millions | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

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