Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spearheaded by Dudley House Representative David Vendler '84, the council proposed a springtime Grateful Dead concert in the stadium, and lined up both support from the student body and financial backing for the enterprise...
Lenders defend ARMS as one of the few effective ways to make homes affordable. Says Dennis Jacobe, senior vice president of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions: "The housing industry would be dead right now if it weren't for ARMS." Savings institutions also say they need ARMS as a hedge against interest-rate surges like the one in 1981-82, when many lenders were caught with fixed-rate loans that paid them as little as 41/2%. At the same time, the thrifts were forced to pay 10% or more in interest to depositors. Says Edwin Gray, chairman...
...monthly magazine with about 50,000 readers, has published its final issue. So has Compu-Kids, Educational Computer, Computer-Fun and two dozen other computer magazines. "Anyone wanting to start a new magazine had better research another field," says Robert Lydon, publisher of Personal Computing. "This one is dead...
...Galligan describes the scene, "They pick their noses, they snap their fingers, they drink lots of beer. One gremlin in a raincoat is a flasher. There's a Jennifer Beals gremlin who breakdances. Five gremlins play poker; one of them accuses another of cheating and another shoots him dead with a gun. They are little satirists, walking parodies of humanity." The sequence suggests ingenuity rampant on a field of lunacy. There has been nothing quite like it since they shut down Termite Terrace, the Warner Bros, cartoon shop...
...DECLARED DEAD. Helen Vorhees Brach, reclusive widow of Chicago Candy Tycoon Frank Brach and heir to the E.J. Brach & Sons candy company fortune, who vanished seven years ago at age 66 after a checkup at the Mayo Clinic; as of Feb. 17, 1977, the last day she was known to be alive; in Chicago. Most of the estimated $45 million estate will go to hospitals, churches and animal-welfare groups, but her will also includes a $50,000 annuity to John Matlick, 54, her longtime houseman and chauffeur, who was originally a suspect, though no evidence ever directly linked...