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...minutes before the expected adjournment of last week's city council meeting in Mount Pleasant, Iowa (pop. 7,300), a man in a parka and camouflage hunting cap approached the horseshoe-shaped meeting table. Whipping out a pistol, he shot one councilman in the head. As city officials ducked for cover, he fired eight more shots. When police arrived they found Mayor Edward King, 53, dead and two council members gravely injured. The gunman, Ralph Orin Davis, 69, had been angry with the city over a backed-up sewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revenge: The Killing Season | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

Meanwhile, junior 6-ft., 4-in. forward Kyle Dodson--who was inconsistent throughout most of the '85-'86 campaign--joins Duncan at the forward position. Dodson, who scored 19 points in the Crimson's season opener last week at Lehigh and another 14 points at Lafayette, has been a pleasant surprise as the cagers' steadiest performer in the young season...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Caution: Rebuilding in Progress at Briggs | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...very pleasant to have such a variety of material to deal with every weekend, but if we are to survive the displeasure of the Powers That Give Money, we should define what it is we are supposed to be doing...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: Why Bother | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

...latest Harvard couple is finding marriage "extremely pleasant," so far, according to Cabot House Master Myra Mayman who celebrated her three week anniversary this weekend with her new hubby, Alexander A. Bernhard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...Chrysler brainstorm. Since Japanese automakers were raising their prices in the U.S., why not fill the gap they were leaving with a domestic subcompact that would sell for less than $6,000? Practically overnight, the No. 3 automaker put together a bargain intended to give U.S. car buyers a pleasant form of sticker shock. The automaker slashed the price of its front-wheel-drive Plymouth Horizon and Dodge Omni by $710 and tossed in options worth $684 for free. Chrysler calculated that it could still make a profit, partly because it had long since paid off the costs of developing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chrysler Thinking Fast and Making Moves | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

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