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Wheaton is one of twelve colleges participating in Societies Organized Against Racism (SOAR), a two year-old group originated by Darryl Smaw, a chaplain at Brown University...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Wheaton Episode of Racism Called Part of National Trend | 11/10/1983 | See Source »

...SOAR's members are Bowdoin, Boston College, Brown, Dartmouth, Fitchburg State, Northeastern, Smith, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, Wheaton, and Williams...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Wheaton Episode of Racism Called Part of National Trend | 11/10/1983 | See Source »

Almost immediately, as shocked U.S. and French troops undertook the task of finding the dead and wounded, the casualty figures began to soar. The first reports said that at least 40 Marines had been killed, then 57; by noon Sunday the Pentagon put the toll at 120 dead and 45 injured?and still rising. Said Lieut. Colonel Thomas Jones, a Pentagon spokesman: "There are extensive casualties. It changes on a minute-by-minute basis." Before Sunday, six Marines had been killed in Lebanon by sniper fire or artillery explosions in the Beirut airport vicinity, and a seventh had died when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carnage in Lebanon | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...lonely achievement of the American character, self-contained, self-confident, in motion across great distances. Lindbergh perfectly embodies a contradiction in the older American soul. He was a kind of mystic mechanic. He arced up into another element. He took human possibility into another atmosphere. He made American materialism soar-the first great American export of the technological...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Triumphs of the Spirit: How History Responds to ideas and Yearnings | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...fervor is big business. If the beat continues, record and tape sales will soar some 10% over last year's total of $3.6 billion. Soul Rocker Michael Jackson's No. 1 Thriller may sell 9 million copies by the end of the year. David Bowie's Let's Dance has moved 1 million in just three months, and Synchronicity, the latest album by the Police, has sold 2 million in less than a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Rock on a Red-Hot Roll | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

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