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...keep up suspense and excitement and to encourage more people to attend, the names of the bride and groom were not announced before the ceremony. Only after the stag party and bridal shower did the organizers of the $240 gals inform the bride and groom privately of their respective roles. The Stanford Daily reported recently...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Dorm Wedding Party | 5/1/1982 | See Source »

...afternoon, it was drizzling-that I found it after searching all Europe and North America for a copy; that it is dog-eared at passages that mean more to my life than my heartbeat; that the mere touch of its pages recalls to me in a Proustian shower my first love, my best dreams. Should I mind that you seek to take all that away? That I will undoubtedly never get it back? Then even if you actually return it to me one day, I will be wizened, you cavalier, and the book spoiled utterly by your mishandling? Mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Would You Mind If I Borrowed This Book? | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...weekends, proposed that the two try to market a memory board, which stores information, that he had designed in his spare time. With $6,000 they bought inventory and printing materials and started assembling the boards in the Harp home. Styrofoam packing materials were stored in a downstairs shower; the dining room became a testing area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computer Coup | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...courier to Kissinger, who would then telephone Kriss with comments and clarifications. "He is an excellent text editor," says Kriss. "He is also an absolute workhorse. With help from TIME'S switchboard, he was able to find me just about anywhere, at any hour, even in the shower at 8:30 a.m." Kissinger also called several times from Massachusetts General Hospital, where he went first for tests and then, two weeks ago, for a triple coronary bypass. Says Kriss: "The very night before his surgery, with attendants swarming around to prep him, he calmly went over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Mar. 1, 1982 | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...sends down roots as deep as 40 feet; it sucks up the earth's moisture as if it were drinking through a straw. During the great drought of the 1950s, hardly a shower fell on Tom Green County for eight years; only the mesquite lived well. Mesquite resembles an otherwise handsome tree afflicted by terrible arthritis, but it possesses a sort of peasant vitality. It is a vigorous, complacent survivor, an efficient brute of evolution, like the shark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Texas: The Great Mesquite Wars | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

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