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...night, with tent flaps open and the light of campfires flickering beneath the towering dark trees, a harmonica plays a mournful country-and-western air and young voices hum along. Guitars and a drum join in, changing the melody. "The corn is as high as an elephant's eye," the Scouts sing, none louder than a large contingent from Oklahoma. Their voices seem to reach the tops of the trees. If there are doubts about the move away from city Scouting, they pass into the night. "Sure, kids today are different," says Scoutmaster Arthur Ferraro, 64, of Westerly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: The Boy Scouts Encamp | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...SCENE at the Quincy House library is a familiar one: the click of calculator buttons punctuates the hum of the air-conditioners; xeroxed notes and newly-bought textbooks cover the tables; House residents sit in plush armchairs and sofas, silently shaking their heads. But a notice on an otherwise empty bulletin board, labelled "Recent Acquisitions," gives a visitor the first indication that something is different here...

Author: By Michael W. Miler, | Title: THE INCREDIBLE COMIC CZAR | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...line for the printer, screeching when they discovered that the printer in Littauer stuck on every other page. The room containing the printer was an antiseptic prison vibrating with the sounds of the air conditioner and the computer. Periodically the curses of a frustrated zombie rose above the hum because the printer's fragile filament got tangled or the computer swallowed a line or paragraph. The pica mechanism finally refused to work at all, and every page had to be written in tiny elite type. It was a thesis-padder's nightmare. In the terminal room, grad students, government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREATION OF A THESIS | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...final image--the green displays and low hum of digital computer terminals, hooked up in a computer graphics laboratory that once was a bedroom...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The End of the Battle | 3/20/1981 | See Source »

...convicted of collaboration and of assaulting an American prisoner. Gustav Mehrer, one of the nine former P.O.W.s called by the prosecution, testified that Garwood kept a stack of propaganda leaflets, wore an enemy uniform and held a rifle. Said Mehrer: "His actions were Vietnamese. He would hum and giggle like them. He would squat. He was a white Vietnamese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Garwood Guilty | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

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