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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time, Bullitt's suit jointed about 30 others filed nationwide against the $30 billion-per-year tobacco industry. There are currently about 40 suits on file, though not one has reached a courtroom, according to Bob Northrop, a lawyer for Phillip Morris...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Relatives Drop Late Professor's Tobacco Lawsuits | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

From this week's trivia file comes this question: Butler might be the best Princeton player in recent history, but he'll never win the Heisman Trophy. Only one Ivy player has ever done that--and he played for Princeton. Name him. Answer below...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Will the Butler Do It? | 10/22/1985 | See Source »

...rating on general leadership ability. Not only is he far in front of Mitterrand's 38%, but he also leads Premier Fabius, 39, and former Premier Raymond Barre, 61, the most popular conservative opposition figure, both of whom draw some 50%. Rocard, whose standing among the Socialist rank and file had never equaled his public ratings, has emerged in recent months as an influential force within the party. Rocard, concedes one Mitterrandiste deputy, "has attracted a lot of discontented Socialists of all sorts, even a number in the left wing of the party, simply as a means of protesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France a Time for Soul-Searching:Mitterrand's troubled Socialists | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...Gund Hall: Gund Hall has received uniform acclaim from critics as a magnificant blend of later day Internationalism with the environment. In particular, this 1969 creation of John Andrews is praised for its ingenious blending with Memorial Hall.Crimson file photosbottom right, Holyoke Center arcade...

Author: By Victoria G. T. bassetti, | Title: Making a Statement With Brick, Mortar | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

...problem is that it takes too long to pick out the intricate patterns of ridges that distinguish one person's fingertips from the millions on file. Before computers, these patterns were classified into eight categories of arches, loops and whorls. To speed up the search, the FBI's system concentrates on simpler patterns: the so-called points of minutiae, where a ridge line ends or a single ridge splits into two. A thin beam of light scans each print and records the location of up to 100 minutiae. The computer then converts these data into numbers that can be stored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Taking a Byte Out of Crime | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

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