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More tangibly, the committee is also trying toget permission to install a new, cheaper type ofelevator in the Leverett House library, Parsonssaid. "It hasn't been approved for use on the EastCoast yet, so we'd be something of a pioneer," hesaid...

Author: By Benjamin Waldman, | Title: Committee To Examine Handicapped Accessibility | 12/2/1986 | See Source »

...sister living in a quiet town near Los Angeles. Eventually he was married there, established a portrait business and fathered the four sons whom he loved fiercely all his life. But a part of him resisted domestication just as fiercely. He found his friends and lovers among the pioneer enclaves of the West Coast counterculture, attic dwellers who shared his penchant for vegetarianism and modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Peppers From Heaven | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

Fellow Britons like Diane Towler and Bernard Ford helped pioneer the ice- dancing form during the '60s. "Because they have a long history of ballroom dancing," says Button, "the British have been the most creative of ice dancers. It strikes a sensitive nerve in them." Soviets like Ludmilla Pakhomova and Aleksandr Gorshkov have also left their imprint on the form, but Torvill and Dean may be the first to reach the superstar status of such figure-skating soloists as Dorothy Hamill and Peggy Fleming. "All new skaters will in some way look like Torvill and Dean," says Button. "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sensuality and Ice Magic: Torvill and Dean | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...weeks, the business has grossed $600, of which $300 is profit, said Christopher P. Bray, another pioneer of the off-campus company. A set of three condoms costs $2, and sponges sell...

Author: By Terri E. Gerstein, | Title: Condom Service Born at U.T. | 11/12/1986 | See Source »

Lightweight eights-women--1, Minnesota B.C. (Mn.), 17:35.12; 2, Pioneer Valley R.A. (Ct.); 3, Hamilton College Crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 22nd Head of the Charles Results | 10/20/1986 | See Source »

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