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...Terrell, Texas. A remarkably small player (5 ft. 4 in., 170 lbs.), Young made All-America as a freshman at the University of Illinois in 1944, rushing for 13 touchdowns that season to tie Red Grange's school record. His impressive nine-year pro career began with the defunct All-America Conference's New York Yankees and ended with the Baltimore Colts of the N.F.L., who retired his number 22. When Young joined the league commissioner's office in 1964, he became the first black executive in a major sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 19, 1983 | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

When the mess is finally cleaned up, the Square will have a new look, with trees and wider sidewalks. Eventually, a new entrance near the defunct Harvard/Holyoke stop will open up, completing the eight-year project...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: A New Look | 9/15/1983 | See Source »

...insistence, Hashemi set up various business entities to try to conceal his U.S. connections: his R.R.C. Co. in Stamford with its rug-shop front; a subsidiary in London; a separate company, Zoomer Fly Ltd., also in London. Hashemi's brother Cyrus, who was president of the now-defunct First Gulf Bank & Trust, helped finance the Zoomer Fly operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Arms For the Ayatullah | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

Harvard African Students Association--Defunct for two years, HASA resurfaced this spring to sponsor study groups and cultural events about Africa. The group also look a political turn when it organized a two-day teach in about South African divestiture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Eight Groups | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...executive only a few days later when the newly-elected president decided to take a leave of absence. She immediately found herself in the midst of an angry controversy about whether or not RUS had a right to exist. The issue had been raised in 1979, when the now-defunct Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) voted to revoke RUS's right to its financial lifeblood, the $5 term bill fee charged to every woman undergraduate at that time. Radcliffe President Matina Horner rejected the CHUL vote, forcing a confrontation...

Author: By Kathleen I. Kouril, | Title: The Politics Of Feminism | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

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