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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then involved in the case, but late in 1952 Elman helped draft an amicus curiae brief for the Truman Administration. He was prompted by Frankfurter's disclosures to go against his own sense of the proper legal argument and tailor the brief to offer the wavering judges a key compromise: that the court could permit states to take a gradual approach to integration. That tactic was later adopted in a unanimous court ruling that called for integration "with all deliberate speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Judge's Breach of Confidence | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

Attempts by North to alter, and perhaps even delete, certain key files may have been foiled by another feature of the system. Like most computers, the NSC mainframe deletes electronic documents not by obliterating the data they contain, but by removing their file names from a central disk directory. The body of information remains intact indefinitely -- or until the space it occupies is written over with new data. Thus a resourceful programmer, armed with a description of a document that has been zapped, can often resurrect it from the disk. "We were living under a delusion," admitted one Administration official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Can A System Keep a Secret? | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...key player in the early convolutions of the drama was Jim Bakker, the religious entrepreneur who reigned over the domain called Heritage USA. Nestled in the pine-carpeted piedmont just south of the border between North and South Carolina, Heritage is the third most popular theme park in the country (after the two Disney operations). It drew more than 6 million people last year to its 500-room hotel, 2,500-seat church, five-acre water park, and mock gable-fronted "Main Street USA," an enclosed mall with 25 stores and a 650-seat cafeteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evangelism: TV's Unholy Row | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...indeed have begun with the first beer. Ten thousand years ago, man the hunter-gatherer settled down to civilized crop raising. Just why has never been clear, however. Katz, 47, who hoists a civilizing glass or two himself, argues in the University of Pennsylvania's anthropology magazine that one key was the accidental fermenting of a beer from cereal grains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: History With Gusto | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...Murdoch's view, the industry's state of flux is an argument for going ahead. "Viewers have less and less loyalty to existing stations and networks," he says. "We have an opportunity to establish ourselves and win an audience." The key question, of course, is how big an audience. Though Fox owns powerful stations in such major cities as New York and Los Angeles, many of its affiliates are weaker UHF outlets. Fox is projecting an average rating of 6 for its prime-time shows, far less than the 16 or so that is usually a passing grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Room For One More? | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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