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...attackers, a father who was a Chrysler foreman and his stepson, were angry and addled: Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz blamed Japanese carmakers for Detroit's problems, and Chin-Chinese or Japanese, it made no difference to them-was a convenient target. "It's because of you we're out of work," screamed Ebens, who was in fact employed full time. The pair got a baseball bat and beat Chin to death. Said he as he lost consciousness: "It isn't fair." When Ebens, 44, and Nitz, 23, were sentenced last March after confessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Isn't Fair: Violence in Detroit | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

William F. Flanagan, operations foreman in Buildings and Grounds, said yesterday that to his knowledge no undergraduate residence is currently being heated. However, some of them have been heated at odd intervals, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heat's On? | 10/14/1983 | See Source »

...jury of four women and two men found that Metromedia, Inc.* had defrauded Craft by hiring her as a journalist and then attempting to make her over as a camera presence. The jurors also recommended that U.S. District Judge Joseph Stevens find Metromedia guilty of sex discrimination. Said Jury Foreman Kenneth Green: "We hope we have helped women in broadcasting." The case took on a symbolic importance for women's groups, who contributed to help Craft pay her attorney, Dennis Egan. Said Christine Lund, 39, an anchor at Los Angeles' KABC: "This proves that the public is sharper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Requiem for TV's Gender Gap? | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...always a mistake to deride the potency of stereotypes in the theater or the power of good-vs.-evil allegories, however simpleminded. Here the premise is that Mr. Mister (David Schramm), the boss of Steeltown, U.S.A., is a cigar-chomping tyrant, and his gutsy prole of a foe, Larry Foreman (Randle Mell), is a knight in blue-collar armor. We meet Mister's toadies: mousy Reverend Salvation, sycophantic College President Prexy and craven Editor Daily. As a whore with a heart of tarnished nickel, Lisa Banes is achingly vulnerable, and Michele-Denise Woods keens a militant lament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Gutsy Proles | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

...three of their seven children, he climbed into the family's white Volkswagen minibus and set off for Sokolow Podlaski, a small town 55 miles from Warsaw, to go fishing. He claimed that his holiday request had been approved by supervisors but later rescinded. Said Walesa: "The foreman and shift boss decide when every other worker can take his vacation. Why must my vacation be decided by a general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Playing Hooky | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

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