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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building's occupants are steaming mad. "It's 80 degrees right now," said Video Lab technician Karen A. Zukowski '87, "and people come in with their winter jackets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Battle Against Winter Turns Heated | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...Everywhere I go, kindness," he says. "Some cruelty, but nothing hurts my feelings because I feel comfortable. Except in Cleveland, where I catch cold. Ah-ha-ha. Because God made me this way, I'm not mad. I have fun all the time. Oh man, I just want to be a good basketball player." Bol's regimen for gaining weight is as oppressive as Perry's diet, though they are closing on each other cautiously. Perry says, "I don't want to be too thin." Bol says, "I don't want to be too fat." Their grace per pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hurry, Hurry, Step Right Up | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

DIED. Phil Silvers, 73, Emmy Award-winning comedian who after a long career in vaudeville achieved Broadway stardom in High Button Shoes (1947) and Top Banana (1951), appeared in such movies as It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, but was best known for his portrayal of Master Sergeant Ernie Bilko, the glib, rascally hero of the 1950s TV series the Phil Silvers Show; in Century City, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 11, 1985 | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

Kettelberger may have trouble throwing against the Crimson secondary, however. Harvard held highly-touted Princeton signalcaller Doug Butler to a subpar afternoon last week, and the defensive backs have played like a pack of mad dogs all year...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: Gridders Test Big, Bad Bruins Today | 11/2/1985 | See Source »

...emerges: "Forcing American companies to withdraw would end their constructive role." The constructive role of corporations in bringing about reform, of course, lies in their ability to pressure the government. By running ads in South African newspapers urging equal citizenship, they let the Botha regime know that they are mad as hell about apartheid and won't take it any longer. Well, at least not for too much longer...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Mobil Peace Prize | 11/2/1985 | See Source »

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