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...electronic hearth, the computer. Says Vice President Louis H. Mertes of the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago, who is such a computer enthusiast that he allows no paper to be seen in his office (though he does admit to keeping a few files in the drawer of an end table): "We're talking when?not if?the electronic cottage will emerge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Moves In | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...collection reveals Rooney's reliance upon certain themes that soon lose their freshness. "I've got to throw out some clothes," one essay begins, and throughout the book. Rooney's sartorial habits receive much attention. "Seek and thou shall find," he writes adding later. "Not in the bottom drawer of my dresser you won't find." Other essays describe his "unmatched socks," "seventeen shirts," and "worn shoelaces," "Hangers" include this piece of advice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Simple Pleasures | 11/4/1982 | See Source »

...unidentified white male stole a cash box containing $60 from an unlocked desk drawer at the Harvard Information Center yesterday afternoon, according to University police records...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unidentified Man Steals $60 From Holyoke Ctr. Office | 10/20/1982 | See Source »

...lock to the drawer had previously been broken, Ford said. "It's impossible to keep it locked," she added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unidentified Man Steals $60 From Holyoke Ctr. Office | 10/20/1982 | See Source »

...rival the beauty of the bluebonnets that cloak the Texas hills in June or the autumn colors in New England. These hot days he yearns for the surge of the Maine surf, and now and then he takes a picture of his Maine home out of the top left drawer of his desk and looks at the rocky promontory and the blue ocean. His proximity to power has not taken the poetry out of his life. Perhaps that is why he has become something of a legend, a Vice President who likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Close to Power, Down to Earth | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

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