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WHAT CAN YOU SAY about a man who once fired his secretary for not making a tuna fish sandwich on time? A man whose Williams College classmates voted him "Class Griper" and "Shovels It Fastest" in his college yearbook? A man who tried to explain away his $100,000 in illegal contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign as an oversight? A man whose employees privately call him the "Fuhrer...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: George the Third | 4/9/1982 | See Source »

...nuclear arms as a way of posturing," said Kosta Tsipsis, a professor of Physics at MIT. "The arms race is a contest of who can build the fastest, most destructive, most efficient weapons, and we are saturating every parameter of the contest," Tsipsis added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Antinuclear Coalition Holds Symposium | 3/24/1982 | See Source »

What the recent Polish events illustrate is something more than that fastest rule is possible within the framework of a Communist society, whereas democrat government and worker self-rule are clearly in- tolerable--and will not be tolerated. I would contend that what they illustrate of a truth we should have understood a very long time ago: that Communism is fascism successful fascism if you will... Communism is in itself a Variant the most successful variant, of fascism." "The Lesson of Poland." Susan Sontag, January...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Reminder, Not Revelation | 3/20/1982 | See Source »

Richard B. Black, 48, won a place in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1978 for running the fastest continuous vertical, mile, up and down the stairs of Chicago's Lake Point Tower (time: 2 hr. 9 min. 45 sec.). Now Black has achieved a very different kind of notoriety. He is a chief executive officer who is suing the company he worked for. Black has filed a lawsuit that accuses his former employer, AM International, and some of its ex-executives of misrepresenting the firm's financial condition when he was hired a year ago. Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biting the Hand | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

...fastest team in the conference when they want to skate, the icemen were too much for a tight B.C. squad playing catch-up-hockey. "They're a different team than they were back in January," said Eagle coach Len Ceglarski. "They've grown up. They've got composure. They do a lot of things right out there...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: It's On To The Garden For Harvard | 3/10/1982 | See Source »

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