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As the occupiers rifled through files in the deans' offices, University officials mulled their options. Most of the protestors were members of the national student radical group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). They were not the first to take over buildings in the late '60s, and the University had...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Facts: Takeover Split Tense Campus | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

Minnesota ALG, as it became known, turned out to be highly effective. As patient survival rates improved, other surgeons clamored to get hold of the potion. Between 1970, when Najarian obtained permis-sion from the FDA to produce and use the compound on an experimental basis, and 1992, when the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONCE A HERO | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

Voila, the microcar. For about a decade, this urban motorist's dream has been available to thousands of car owners in rural France. In the late 1970s, another era of spiraling oil costs and Middle East tension, a handful of automakers developed midget voitures sans permis (no-license cars) to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Time for The Teeny Tinies? | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

Last August while Russian Geneticist Zhores Medvedev was working in Britain - with his government's permis sion - Soviet authorities canceled his passport and revoked his citizenship, making him an involuntary émigré. Medvedev, who now lives in London, cannot have been surprised. The Soviets had tried to subdue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Underground Notes | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

Bob Hope got back from Britain shortly after a brush with Westminster Abbey authorities. The comedian and a cinema company with a load of cinematic baggage had piled into the Dean's Yard to shoot some scenes, promptly got bundled out again. They had neglected to ask permis sion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 13, 1943 | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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