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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Student groups can reserve the space with Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, and the gate to the garden is supposed to be open during daylight hours in good weather...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Managing Part of Fly Club Garden Proves Taxing | 10/15/1988 | See Source »

...ornamented toggles that make up a whole category of miniature sculpture in traditional Japan) given to the museum by the San Francisco collector and scholar Raymond Bushell and his wife Frances. The walls are pleats of white translucent plastic made to look like shoji, or paper screens, which filter daylight to the galleries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Splendor Packaged In Kitsch | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...South Korean Olympic officials realized that the rights would be worth more if the country's clocks were moved forward one hour -- thus enabling more daytime events to be seen in prime time in the U.S. Result: last year, for the first time since the 1960s, South Korea instituted daylight saving time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: NBC's Bid For TV Glory | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...East Germans have escaped over the Berlin Wall this year, six by swimming across the Spree. What made last week's exploit so remarkable is that Adryan and company plunged into the river at one of its most heavily guarded points, and in broad daylight. Perhaps, as they had hoped, the presence of so many Western tourists, including an alert British visitor who videotaped the entire escape, deterred the guards from shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Shoot! I Have a Baby in My Stomach! | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

...perceptions of the Soviets back to a more pragmatic middle ground. Now that he has begun to spell out his own plans for diplomacy and defense, as he did in carefully wrought speeches in Chicago and Corpus Christi, Texas, last week, Bush is not only opening a crack of daylight between himself and Reagan, he is re-emerging as a paragon of what for much of the past decade was thought to be an endangered if not extinct species in the Grand Old Party -- a moderate Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Worldly Than Wise | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

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