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...blaze, which Fire Department officials labelled suspicious started in a stack of computer printout paper inside the building near the loading platform at about 2:30 a.m., police said...

Author: By Adam H. Gokfain, | Title: Harvard Square Bank Robbed; Police, FBI Pursue Suspect | 3/17/1984 | See Source »

Finally there is the trio, Berthold, Newell and Taft, whose offensive numbers don't stack up to those of their redline teammates, but they weren't expected to. The three defensemen, all four-year players along with Tate, gave the team a reputation for superb defense. Further, the three played such a vital role while forced to shoulder all of the blueline duty themselves...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: A Sextet of Stellar Seniors | 3/8/1984 | See Source »

...minute for 19 years. The. President has used a similar metaphor. In a speech unveiling his economic program soon after he took office, Reagan dramatized his concern about the national debt, then approaching $1 trillion, by noting that it would take a stack of $1,000 bills 67 miles high to equal that total. When he brought out his new budget this month, Reagan failed to mention that his deficits would push the debt to $ 1.8 trillion by next year and raise his stack of $ 1,000 bills to more than 120 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Monster Deficit | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...world of black cinema is a virtually lost one, ignored by both film historians and black-culture researchers. That is why such intense scholarly and media attention is being paid to a stack of old film cans found in a Tyler, Texas, warehouse and acquired by G. William Jones, director of Southern Methodist University's Southwest Film/Video Archives. Not yet fully examined or catalogued, the collection may not be quite the "treasure trove" that it was originally thought to be, but it contains upwards of 20 "race movies" (as they were once called), including some "lost" films and excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Artifacts of a Lost Culture | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...nonsense, impression all right, rather than considered thinking. This disoriented and unprepared young man graded two papers and two examinations in that class, and my son spotted him one and one half hours before the final in the Greenhouse Cafe just beginning to work in his coffee and a stack of term papers at least twelve inches high. They had to be returned within a few hours. Anyone who watched this grader whip through several ten page papers at the rate of two to five minutes each would have wondered, "Why bother?" Like the person in your photograph this "instructor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergraduate Instruction? | 2/24/1984 | See Source »

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