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...hard to nail down where the problem lies." Dr. Raymond Jackson, director of the college health service, said last week...

Author: By Compiled MICHAEL G. harpe, | Title: Salmonella Outbreak | 3/7/1981 | See Source »

...heartbreaking beauty who from Vogue's cover projects an ancient soul can act eight years old in her mother's presence. "Mommy, I have a toothache," she will whine "Oh, Mommy, my nail." Teri plays her part smotheringly: "Use that fork for your cake." "Say hello." "Say please." It is reasonable to wonder when and how Brooke might break loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Big-League Stunner or Nice Kid? | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...Tigers had shaven for the historically heated head-to-head battle, but the win still came as a shock to the 300 fans who crammed into Blodgett's humid confines to witness what they thought would prove the confirmation of Harvard's swimming dynasty, the last nail in Princeton's collective coffin...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Grudge Match | 2/7/1981 | See Source »

...dinnertime on Monday in a Washington preparing to inaugurate Ronald Reagan, and nearly midnight in Algiers, where Deputy Secretary of State Warren M. Christopher was trying to nail down the last elements of the deal to free the 52 American hostages. Christopher picked up the phone that connected him directly to the White House. Using his code name, "Superman," he was immediately put through to the President, and, in comparing notes on the latest impasse in the bargaining, the two men came up with a ploy. When he hung up the receiver, Christopher ordered his State Department plane readied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Hostages: How the Bargain Was Struck | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

Residents in the Haggerty school district protested the proposed closing of their school. Leonard Russell, city councilman, said that closing the school would "ruin the community," adding that the residents of Haggerty would fight "tooth and nail" to keep the school open...

Author: By Mark A. Silber, | Title: Prop 2 1/2 Hearing | 1/28/1981 | See Source »

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