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Jubilant Administration officials saw the rally as a rousing endorsement of the President's policies. Said Treasury Secretary Donald Regan: "The stock market is bullish on America. The seeds of economic recovery planted last year are now bearing fruit." There was more than a touch of irony in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Elation on the Street | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

IN A PERPETUAL and steadily more disturbing self-absorption, the older Krapp apes the taped actions and words of his younger self, fantasizing each time Krapp the younger reminisces about a woman, and occasionally rousing himself to sing a song or swig from a wine bottle at the younger one...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Video Game | 11/9/1982 | See Source »

The new laureate is one of six children of the noted Harvard chemist E. Bright Wilson. At eight, he could calculate cube roots in his head. After graduating from Harvard in 1956, he studied for his doctorate at Caltech under Murray Gell-Mann, the 1969 Nobel laureate in physics. One...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prizes: Magic, Matter and Money | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

As an alumna of the Harvard Band and a former assistant manager, I am well aware of the hand's tremendous commitment to wards keeping the Harvard spirit alive and kicking throughout the Harvard community. Not only does the bun "drum up" financial support for the University (which in turn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Back the Band | 10/23/1982 | See Source »

It is not unusual for a rousing speech by Ronald Reagan to evoke a standing ovation from an appreciative audience-unless that audience happens to be black. With no other racial group is his standing so low or have criticisms of his approach to governing been so severe. But last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We're Not Writing Off Anyone | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

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