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...edge of 60 set off to find Senior Cave. This had been a modest hillside hole, concealed from the faculty by distance and foliage, where as boys they once spent many afternoons smoking cigarettes and drinking, for want of wisdom, cherry brandy. The day was warm, the hill steep, the pine-needle footing slippery, and the men were all overweight...
While software industry growth remains steep, development and marketing costs are climbing. One of the firms hit hardest is VisiCorp, which rose to early industry leadership as the distributor of VisiCalc, the business planning program that is still the alltime bestseller, with more than 700,000 copies sold. But VisiCalc has been surpassed by newer programs like Microsoft's Multiplan, and sales are lagging. At the same time, VisiCorp has been burdened with the development woes of its elaborate Visi On program. VisiCorp is also engaged in a messy court battle with Software Arts of Wellesley, Mass., the company...
...reaching San Francisco, Mitterrand stole a few hours for an impromptu walk downtown with his wife Danielle. Disconcerted Secret Service escorts balefully followed the French couple up and down steep Chinatown streets, and were almost as shocked as the waiters when Mitterrand dropped into Scott's Seafood Grill for a late-night snack. Ceremony was restored by Mayor Dianne Feinstein, who feted Mitterrand at a city hall gala. He smiled stoically as an Army brass band oompahed its way through La Marseillaise, then beamed when Violinist Isaac Stern took the podium...
...with more harshly." He can take heart in a new movement to "recriminalize" marijuana in California. Currently, the fine for possessing an ounce of marijuana is $100, payable by mail. A nine-member state commission appointed by state Attorney General John Van de Kamp has recommended legislation to impose steep fines and jail sentences for the possession, cultivation or sale of marijuana, no matter how small the amount. Even if legislatures do not increase the penalties for pot, its devotees should beware. Warns New York City Attorney Gerald Lefcourt: "That doesn't mean the police won't still...
According to her husband, Peter D. Molan, professor of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell, "Each step itself is not big enough for a foot and the drop between steps is very steep...