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...early roles for such actors as Jill Clayburgh, Lee Grant and Wayne Rogers, and was an anchor of CBS's top-rated daytime lineup of the 1950s and '60s. But ratings fell, and the soap was dropped by CBS in 1982, only to resurface on NBC. In a last-ditch ploy to revive interest, a devastating flood was ordered up in February, enabling a revamp of sets, story lines and characters. It did not help: Search for Tomorrow remained the lowest-rated network soap. Its final episode will air on Friday, Dec. 26. After that, the daily woes will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: No Tomorrow: After 35 years, a soap sinks | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

Ronald Reagan, in an uncharacteristic display of stamina, was hard at work. In a last ditch effort to save the Republican Senate, the President visited 17 states, campaigning for his friends in the Senate class of '80, the Reagan coattail riders...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Too Much Money | 11/6/1986 | See Source »

...U.S.S.R. had continued to up the ante. Now, as night closed in on Hofdi house, the "grand compromise" was in sight. But the whole startling package of proposals was hanging on the Soviet insistence that Star Wars research be confined to the laboratory. Ronald Reagan made a last-ditch appeal to Mikhail Gorbachev. He declared he had made a pledge to the American people not to trade away SDI. "Please," Reagan said, "don't ask me to do it." Impervious, the General Secretary replied, "Nyet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When to Hold 'Em - and to Fold 'Em | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

Although it seems horrible enough, I guess there is a positive aspect to the torture which I go through each summer. After about a week of bolt-grinding, I begin to miss the shuttle bus. After a month of ditch digging, I could sit through an English 10 lecture without screaming, and finally, by the beginning of September I love Harvard, and can't wait to be back. Even the Lampoon reads well after a summer with Baby...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Those Back-to-School Blues | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

Vagabond opens with the discovery of an unknown girl, frozen in a ditch by the side of the road. The film's action (this is definitely a film, not a movie) retraces the path that led this girl, Mona, to her death...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: I'm a Wanderer | 8/1/1986 | See Source »

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