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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They also announced that a new, experimental copy card system would be installed to smooth the transition to the ten-cent copy-but, drumroll, only in the Anthropology Department's Tozzer Library. As for the other, more popular xeroxing sites on campus--Hilles, Lamont, and Widener--save your dimes...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | 9/24/1986 | See Source »

...sent out some 6600 invitations to an outdoor black tie affair on October 11, as partial compensation for holding the bulk of the 350th celebration while undergrads were out of town. I saw it for what it was: a tail-between-the-legs attempt to avoid student criticism and smooth our ruffled feathers. But what the hell, I'm always up for a good party...

Author: By Amy N. Ripich, | Title: Blackballed | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...MAJORITY OPINION's enthusiasm for State Sen. George Bachrach's (D-Watertown) smooth rhetoric and flashy style is misguided. To anyone else on the outside looking in at the race for the Eighth Congressional District seat, the four front-runners look like four wheels on the same...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Vote for Bachrach | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...script was vaguely familiar: voting in a bloc, a racial minority upsets a smooth-talking, politically connected shoo-in. This time, though, both candidates were black and the minority vote was white. The well-connected loser in the Democratic primary runoff in Atlanta's Fifth Congressional District was State Senator Julian Bond, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The winner: former City Councilman John Lewis, onetime S.N.C.C. chairman, who outhustled his former ally to beat him 52% to 48% after finishing a distant second in last month's primary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlanta: Turning the Tables | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...carried by a gold-and-black hearse, drawn by two bay horses, followed by a long line of Rolls-Royces and luxury cars. Inside the Baptist church where Mitchell lay in his bronze coffin with glittering rings on his fingers, a sound track played Sade's pop hit, Smooth Operator. Mitchell, 32, had been stabbed to death in Leavenworth penitentiary while serving a life sentence for drug-trafficking conspiracy. But in the faces of young people who lined the funeral route were expressions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Crusade | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

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