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Armed with an abacus (reluctantly traded later for a calculator), she drafted editorial budgets that displayed an uncanny ability to predict the number of wars, snap elections and natural disasters that would occur and thus add to the cost of news coverage. Watt also (gulp!) reviewed our expense accounts. "God...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Feb. 8, 1988 | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

When the Soviets lifted a rebel siege of the strategically placed town of Khost at the end of December, some Western diplomatic observers and Pakistani analysts in Islamabad thought that would give them a pretext to declare victory in the eight-year-old war and begin pulling out. But the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Rebuff from the Rebels | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

The great size of the baby boom generation also encouraged a sort of subliminal illusion. When time flows from father to son, from past through present into future, the generations have their orderly procession, moving vertically through time. But it was a metaphysical conceit of the baby boomers that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1968 Like a knife blade, the year severed past from future | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

Alice Knox, a Radcliffe graduate who still leads the college's annual graduation procession, recently retired after working 57 years for the Coop--over half of its 105 year existence. According to Coop President James A. Argeros, she was the Coop's longest standing employee. "We honor her at every...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Half-century Veterans Chronicle Changes | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

The march was escorted by two Cambridge Police cruisers, and proceeded peacefully from the Common, through Harvard Sqare, and down Massachusetts Avenue toward Cambridge City Hall. Marchers carried signs and banners with slogans such as "The INF Treaty: A First Step," and "2000 Warheads Down, 48,000 to Go." The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Activists March for Treaty | 12/8/1987 | See Source »

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