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"Running. Harry has continued the running he began up in the Poconos, as a way of getting his body back from those sodden years he never thought about it, just ate and did what he wanted, restaurant lunches downtown in Brewer plus the Rotary every Thursday, it begins to pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Crisis of Confidence RABBIT IS RICH by John Updike | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

And Harvard has continued its policy--begun last year--of allowing students to order touch-tone phones for an extra $1.50 per month plus installation fees. Students who place special orders first receive a normal rotary phone, which is replaced by a touch-tone phone within two months.

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Computer System to Improve Phone Service By Insuring Response to Repair Requests | 9/23/1981 | See Source »

Politics has a lot in common with baseball. Both have two major leagues, for instance, and essentially politicians compete all summer in the regular season, narrow the field with a set of playoffs and then wind it up with a World Series. On off days, they, like ball players, speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yanks Need Bush | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Helms must have done something to please Smith, for a year later the young radio newsman left Raleigh and WRAL for Washington to work on Smith's staff. After a year as an administrative aide, he was detached to help with Georgia Senator Richard Russell's doomed segregationist presidential campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To the Right, March!: Jesse Helms | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Jimmy Carter uses one. So do Novelists John Hersey and Richard Condon. Every month more writers are discarding their pencils and typewriters for "word processors"-technical jargon for small computers with typewriter-like keyboards, electronic screens for scanning and manipulating text, units to store information, and high-speed printers. Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plugged-ln Prose | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

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