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...frail old man sat in a wheelchair, his emaciated right arm hanging limply in his lap, his eyes staring vacantly overhead. His lip was curled, as if he had lost control of his facial muscles, and his bald pate bore the green marks that are used for radiation treatments. As a nurse guided his wheelchair out of a hospital elevator, only the presence of an escort with an official- looking radio suggested that this was a special patient: William Casey, until last week the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casey's Well-Groomed Successor | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

Sontag, who lived in Beirut for 40 years, sat quietly, saying nothing and slowly wringing his hads on his lap. He appeared well, but confused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Hostages Return From Lebanon | 11/12/1986 | See Source »

...time I found a pizza on John Harvard's lap," says Crooks. "Who on earth would want to feed him?" The veteran administrator also reports seeing jack o'lanterns hanging from the gargoyles atop the tower of Memorial Hall. "How in God's name did those pumpkins get up there? I've heard tales that one of our mountaineering boys who passed on might have done it, but of course I don't have proof...

Author: By Amy N. Ripich, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Fearsome Phantoms Lurking in the Ivy ... | 10/31/1986 | See Source »

Last February IBM was embarrassed by its loss of a $27 million Internal Revenue Service contract for 15,000 lap-top PCs to Zenith, a relative newcomer to the industry. In April IBM abandoned the retail computer business, selling 81 stores to NYNEX, the New York-based regional telephone company. The shops had sluggish sales in part because they offered only IBM machines, while competitors stocked a wide range of models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IBM: It's Not Easy Being Blue | 10/20/1986 | See Source »

...upon college education. Pundits speculate that Bennett may run for political office in 1988. Right now he's making all the right moves: his fire-and-brimstone attacks upon liberal educational values, his anti-intellectual polemic, and especially his blind and vocal allegiance to Ronald Reagan. The American people lap that stuff up. What they should demand, however, is sobriety...

Author: By Robert F. Cunha, | Title: Get on the Wagon | 10/16/1986 | See Source »

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