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...members of the Lampoon stole a fence traditionally used as a backdrop for a photo of Yale's football captain. Substituting a janitor for the Eli captain, the Lampy editors took a mock version of the picture before returning the stolen booty...

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: How to Strangle a Bulldog | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...Poor Eli's hopes we are dashing into blue obscurity...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: A Treat for Mr. Letterman | 9/6/1986 | See Source »

...tentacles, the flapping of prehistoric winds and the crawling of spiders as they descend on a small New England town. The latest Warner tapes are described by Deutsch as a "new version of old-time radio," complete with scores and sounds. Chaim Potok's The Chosen (Warner), read by Eli Wallach, is augmented by news broadcasts, crowd noises and mood music; Louis L'Amour's A Trail to the West (Bantam) features hoofbeats and gunshots reminiscent of a 1940s Lone Ranger episode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heard Any Good Books Lately? | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...focused on making the outside of the packaging more secure. For example, they placed tightly sealed plastic around the tops of the bottles. Later came other ideas. R.P. Scherer, a capsule manufacturer, developed a "soniseal" machine that uses sonic waves to weld the two pieces of a capsule together. Eli Lilly last year made available to U.S. manufacturers a similar technique. A band of gelatin is placed around the waist of the capsule, where the two pieces overlap. That makes it tougher to open the casing without leaving a mark. But companies were slow to adopt the new technology, apparently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Capsule Controversy | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...Poor Eli's hopes we are dashing into blue obscurity...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Backwards is Beautiful | 5/23/1986 | See Source »

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