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Debate ensued on a different level when the Faculty convened Tuesday. Though Gomes and the other Faculty members of his committee rose to present reasoned pleas for the Foundation, reception to the proposal proved lukewarm.

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Debating the Merits of Interaction | 3/14/1981 | See Source »

Many of the tasks that fall on Hugon's shoulders invoice preparation for home meets. After volunteering several hours each week for the preliminaries, the easygoing manager then spends alternate Saturdays nursing Blodgett Pool's sensitive timing system through the meets. Already a pool legend for getting the very temperamental...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Jacques Hugon: Swim Manager Carves Niche | 3/4/1981 | See Source »

The new company, though, had to file long pleas with the Federal Communications Commission and wage endless court battles with AT&T before its service could be established. In landmark decisions in 1969 and 1971, the FCC allowed MCI and all other competitors to break Ma Bell's 50...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ma Bell's Rival | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

There the headline is, back in the classified section of the Atlantic Monthly, along with those two-line ads for items like "Cookie Beef Stew" and pleas for companionship from "caring" bachelors who love long walks and Mantovani. Under the headline is a fat, two-column come-on from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Oregon: An Adman's Call of the Wild | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

Now, however, in an era when excessive gasoline consumption has become offensive to nostril, pocketbook and national pride, automotive abstinence has become a virtue. The kiwi is in the catbird seat. The man or woman who gets to work by bicycle or shanks' mare trails clouds of self-esteem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Kiwi in the Catbird Seat | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

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