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Kenney said she found five or six holes at the Business School's Kresge Dining Hall, ranging from small tears in insulation lining to 1/4 inch holes. "There must be at least one hole in each dining hall" across the campus, she estimated...

Author: By Michael F.P. Dorning, | Title: Union to Test Insulation for Asbestos | 2/23/1983 | See Source »

...Grabbing at the case, the boy looked nervous for the first time. After a lightning search, he tossed it toward a green wooden planter near the hotel entryway. In doing so, he let fall a single dollar bill. Caught by a little twist of wind, it skittered an inch or two across the sidewalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Be Kind to Your Mugger | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

...movements between Baghdad, the capital, and the southern port city of Basra. By midweek, Tehran Radio was claiming that advancing forces had "liberated" 120 sq. mi. of Iranian territory from Iraqi forces since the attack began. An Iraqi military spokesman was contending that the attackers did not gain "one inch of Iraqi territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persian Gulf: The Last Blow | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

...other guys weren't hurting last night, as the slower, shorter Judges couldn't handle the Crimson offense Center Monroe Trout converted a two inch height advantage into 10 Harvard points and forward Ken Plutnicki sped past the Brandeis front line to nab 12 points on six of eight shooting. The cagers humbled the opposition on the boards 54-29 with Plutnicki's 13 leading...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Cagers Overturn Brandeis, 97-68, As White Nets Career-High 17 Points | 2/16/1983 | See Source »

...preview performances, Henning bolstered the show with with more effects than he could shake a wand at. Many of them had never been seen since the days of Houdini and Blackstone; none has ever been performed so adroitly. Even fellow magicians gaped at Merlin's entrance in a five-inch bubble that mysteriously expanded to life size before the wizard emerged. The other illusions were no less astonishing. On center stage, Debby instantaneously vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It a Magic Show or a Fire? | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

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