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Some say it should be plowed into good works, including a few improvements at the 80-year-old red brick church. Thriftier souls say the money should be placed in a trust. A flood of more than 500 supplicants, seeking everything from rent money to a new roof, has compounded the problem. Nor is the situation improving. A second well, adjacent to the first, started spouting oil, doubling the church's monthly income. So far, more than $100,000 has been banked locally, and the money could easily flow to the church for the next 20 to 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illinois: Of God and Mammon | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...regular basis. It doesn't scare me a bit." Said Longtime Resident Tracy Howard, 80, the town's unofficial historian: "Shucks, you can walk into the street and get hit by a car. I've built houses all my life. I could have fallen off a roof at any time. You just have to watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Could It Happen in West Virginia? | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

Isenberg was accosted early Sunday morning in the lobby of her apartment, where the assailant robbed her of $12 and then forced her to the roof of the seven-story apartment, according to official reports. The assailant then tried to rape her, and when she resisted, stabbed her nine times, police said...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Police Charge Suspect In Harvard Alumna Death | 12/7/1984 | See Source »

...YEARS AGO, Kirkland House Drama Society presented the highly successful Jesus Christ Superstar. Last year, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Fiddler on the Roof solidified the Society's reputation for being the campus representative for popular Broadway musical fare. Who knows--perhaps the religious undertones of these works were leading the gods to smile on the busy activity in Kirkland JCR? With the present production of Godspell, the Kirkland Drama Society returns to the days of Jesus, anticipating a triumphant return to the plains of Galilee. Unfortunately, divine inspiration seems to be wearing...

Author: By Stuart A. Anfang, | Title: Inspiration... at Times | 12/6/1984 | See Source »

...deeper into their beloved electronic brains. Once they started on a project, they would regularly "wrap around," working day and night until, after 30 hours, they collapsed on the nearest cot or sofa. Programmers at Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Lab eventually discovered that the space between the roof and false ceiling made a comfortable sleeping hutch, and some of them lived there for months at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Let Us Now Praise Famous Hackers | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

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