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...agency of the federal Department of Transportation (DOT), the TSC employs 540 federal workers and 300 support contractors from the local area and has conducted research projects for the DOT since 1970. The TSC prepares studies for such groups as the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: U.S. Budget Cuts Could Jeopardize Local Jobs | 2/7/1984 | See Source »

...infamous red dot on a student's envelope is like a red light on a street corner--you can't go further until the color changes. To help the 600 to 800 students who each semester do not send payment by registration morning, the term bill office mans a table in Memorial Hall where undergraduates can settle...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Propagating the Red Dot Scare | 2/1/1984 | See Source »

Hands up, class: Who remembers Scopitone? No one? Well, it's a tough question. Scopitone jukeboxes were European imports, vintage early to mid-'60s, which played, for a deposit of 25?, a faded, grainy color picture of, say, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini with some Neapolitan pop star mouthing the lyrics. It was difficult to determine in what language the lyrics were being mouthed; the sound track was often English, but the lip calisthenics were unmistakably Mediterranean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sing a Song of Seeing | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

Some of the most zealous Buckeye fans are the band members who cap their halftime show each week. While playing the school's fight song, they march out the word Ohio. The greatest honor a band member can receive is to dot the "I" in "Ohio" during the Michigan game. "Dotting the "I" has been a goal of mine for 12 years and to get to do it at the Michigan game is just incredible," says one of this year's co-"I"-dotters senior sousaphone player Brad McDavid...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Other games are important, too | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...first office after a credit check?the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee has burgeoned in four years to something greater than phenomenal. The L.A.O.O.C. plan: Don't build any sports palaces, refurbish the Memorial Coliseum. Spread the Olympic Village lightly over U.S.C., U.C.L.A. and U.C., Santa Barbara. Dot the megalopolis with stirring events. "We didn't have the three top sources of income available to all prior Olympic Games," Ueberroth (pronounced you-ber-roth) says. "The No. 1 income source has been government. We are putting on a private Olympics without government subsidies. The second source in Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eve of a New Olympics | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

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