Word: pal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neat, Northern California bedroom, a bespectacled 16-year-old who calls himself Marc communicates with several hundred unauthorized "tourists" on a computer magic carpet called ARPANET. This $3.3 million computer network maintained by the Defense Department provides a link between key contractors, but ARPANET has become a pen pal club, dating service and electronic magazine for youngsters and other computer hitchhikers gifted enough to join what is in effect a huge, electronic message service. In fact, TIME Correspondent Michael Moritz, working on a terminal near San Francisco, interviewed a teenage tourist in San Diego, using the ARPANET network. Marc...
Opening day is a lot like having lunch with a friend you haven't seen since seventh grade. You get that uncomfortable feeling of having lost touch (who's that rookie in the bullpen?). But you can't wait to hear how your pal is doing (How is Remy's ankle? Rice is sure looking good...
Toddy, who is played with great good spirit by Robert Preston, speaks too soon. For the old queen is anything but an object of pity. Since his new pal looks so dapper in the suit she borrows from him after her clothes have been ruined in a rainstorm, he shrewdly conceives the idea of having her become a female female impersonator: in other words, a woman who plays a man playing women...
Reagan's most enjoyable moment last year may have been on the Fourth of July. Standing with friends on the Truman Balcony, he watched fireworks burst over the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. "He was ecstatic," claims one pal. Says another: "He is a ceremony freak...
...Senate Intelligence Committee for his own financial dealings, including his involvement in a New Orleans agricultural firm that went bankrupt. A report due to be released soon will not recommend Casey's ouster, but it will raise a few additional questions that the President's longtime political pal may be called upon to answer before the full committee...