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...first skirmishes in the battle of Seabrook came early Saturday morning. The night before, while most sat by campfires, protest organizers erected a narrow bridge across a pond near their campsite, a bridge essential for the next day's march toward the fence. Police arrive at 8 a.m. sharp to take it down, a crew of 30 watching while two cops pull apart the crude span. And no sooner do they march away through the woods than a few of the protesters, out for an early morning walk, lay planks back across the trickle of brackish water and cross--their...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Seabrook: The Vegetable Garden War | 5/27/1980 | See Source »

...docket for April 3, 1980 listed nearly eleven cases. The eleventh case was that of Emeka Ezera '81, charged with "larceny from the person," arresting officer Pond of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA), and Heins as prosecuting attorney...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: In the Name of the Law | 4/4/1980 | See Source »

...Samm Sinclair Baker, who co-authored the book. But Tarnower also hunted big game in Africa, birds in the Carolinas and Newfoundland and went fly-fishing in Iceland and Scotland. Above ail, he was fond of giving small, elegant dinner parties at his brick house, which overlooked a duck pond and a statue of Buddha. Twice a day he weighed himself to make sure he stayed at 174 Ibs., but he rarely had to diet. He once explained: "My cravings are not for Big Macs, but for low-calorie Italian white truffles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death of the Diet Doctor | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

Oriental food has its place in the sun. You can find it at Yenching at Harvard Square, Joyce Chen's at Fresh Pond, Hunan, Kabuki and Colleen's in Central Square, Ta Chien across from the Kennedy School, and Hong Kong on Mass Ave. Try Hong Kong's "scorpion bowl." Trust...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: While You're in Cambridge... | 3/20/1980 | See Source »

...this impermeability is the mark of his great Inspector Clouseau. In countless scenes such as the one from A Shot in the Dark when Clouseau stumbled through a roomful of guests in evening dress, out through an open French window and sailed through the air to land in a pond below, the inspector's uncanny Sang-froid has never faltered. Whether failing to pole vault a castle's moat or skimming across the Paris rooftops in a disguise that has somehow inflated like a balloon, or setting his nemesis, Chief Inspector Dreyfus, into paroxysmal eye twitchings. Inspector Clouseau has never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sellers Strikes Again | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

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