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February 15, 1:14 a.m.-A male undergraduate returned to his room in Matthews Hall, and found a white male, about 19 or 20 years old, in a plaid button down shirt and brown pants going through his desk. The man fled through the door. The police found on the student's desk a red Harvard notebook that had been stolen from the common room of Grays Yall earlier that evening. A gold pen and a gold watch were also stolen form the common room that night...

Author: By Donald N. Sull, | Title: Police Blotter | 2/18/1983 | See Source »

...contras (counterrevolutionaries) who conduct raids into Nicaragua from bases in Honduras. For a "covert" operation, the U.S. effort was curiously, perhaps deliberately, open. News of Reagan's decision began to leak out in Washington last March. In Honduras, the American agents were easily spotted because of their jeans, plaid shirts and short haircuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Fears of War Along the Border | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...real audience--because of the theatre's seating arrangement we don't realize that the man assiduously reading his program and taking notes of the set before the play begins is actually part of the cast. Only with the arrival of Birdboot, clad in yellow, green and plaid and munching on chocolates, does the audience get its first hint that something unusual is afoot. The pair discusses Higgs, the first-string, and launches us into a fast-paced, clever hour-and-a-half's entertainment which only occasionally verges on the flip...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Whodunit With a Twist | 11/11/1982 | See Source »

...then, when the band strikes up Hail to the Chief, the President leans over to Nancy and says, "They are playing our song." He chuckled to himself, an old sportscaster, that the baseball All-Star game was played without his even knowing. Even that garish glen-plaid suit that rattled European style arbiters brought a guffaw. "Did you see that suit on NBC? I like that suit. And then I saw an NBC shot indoors and that suit gleamed like it was lighted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Conversation with Ronald Reagan | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

...sweeping saga of unrequited love in the Outback was considered by some to be the Australian Gone With the Wind, and for the filmed version, yet another fair Englishwoman walked off with the lead. Rachel Ward, 24 (Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid), is cast as Meggie in The Thorn Birds, a nine-hour ABC-TV "novel for television" based on Colleen McCullough's 1977 bestseller. Richard Chamberlain, 47, plays Meggie's paramour, Man of the Cloth Ralph de Bricassart. Jean Simmons, 53, has the role of her mother Fee, and Barbara Stanwyck, 74, is cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 12, 1982 | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

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