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Cibotti, a junior forward, led the team in both rebounding (eight) and scoring (13 points). Keffer was the next highest point-grabber for the Crimson with 12, followed by senior Trisha Brown with eight. Sophomore Sarah Duncan contributed six rebounds...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Northeastern De-Presses Women Cagers at Boston 4 | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

Perhaps the biggest attention grabber in the Canada pavilion, however, is Hystar, a 16-ft. flying saucer that bears more than a passing resemblance to one of Steven Spielberg's interstellar luxury liners. Filled with helium and propelled by five tiny rotors, Hystar puts on a show in the main hall every 20 minutes, moving, without help of strings or wires, up, down and sideways, as if it had never heard of gravity. The insouciant little saucer has been such a hit--often getting spontaneous applause--that its builders plan to equip it with a TV camera next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Canada Puts on a Fair That's Fun | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...grabber: "Futuristic way of living arrives in South Florida... Bank at midnight from your living room." When Physician Alfred Damus of Coral Gables, Fla., ran across the announcement one day last week in the morning paper, his imagination went to work. With a system called Viewtron, the doctor and his wife Leatrice could monitor their bank accounts, pay bills, keep track of their stock portfolio and perform other financial tasks simply by tapping the buttons on a notebook-size keyboard. Later that morning his wife spent $600 for the Viewtron machine being advertised at a nearby Burdines department store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armchair Banking and Investing | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

Last weekend the President contemplated what sort of adviser each candidate would make, and he was inclined to pick a cool-headed team player over a potential power grabber. Reagan's apparent favorite for the post, McFarlane, 46, was adept and unflamboyant as Clark's deputy. "When you finish adding up the objective qualities," a senior White House official says, "Bud McFarlane comes up with the most points." A graduate of the Naval Academy, he came to the White House to be an assistant first to President Nixon, then to Kissinger and later Scowcroft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaning Toward a Team Player | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...over a six-month period. "There is a desire to provide a boost to the morale of the Hondurans and the Salvadorans and to show that U.S. power is not rhetoric," said a senior U.S. diplomat. But the ostentatious making of waves, which seemed an attention grabber rather than a justified military maneuver, stirred resentment at home and abroad. Panamanian Foreign Minister Juan José Amado, whose country has been supportive of U.S. peace efforts, said such actions will "cause concern and tension" in Latin America. Congressman Barnes, who will be one of eight congressional consultants to the Kissinger panel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Rolling Out the Big Guns | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

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