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...People at Harvard are definitely against registration; they just have not come out," Marshall said. Several protesters said sub-freezing temperatures have kept picket lines short...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Activists and Trees Protest Registration | 1/7/1981 | See Source »

Like Americans everywhere, the local residents of Dixon and Davenport fumed and spatted about Prohibition, which brought violence even to Davenport: the mysterious shooting and murder of Bootleg Kingpin Nick Coin on the street after raids on sub rosa saloons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up and Away in a Down Year | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

Outside forces, however, were more aggressively interested in the outcome. Oueddei was actively backed by his neighbor to the north, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, who had previously seized a swatch of disputed borderland. Chad seemed to fit neatly into the Libyan leader's ultimate dream of a sub-Saharan republic. Habré, meanwhile, was less directly supported by France, as part of Paris' abiding policy of trying to maintain a forceful role in the affairs of the French-speaking former African colonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHAD: One for Gaddafi | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...been building for months. High interest rates, an initial shortage of low-cost models and the unwillingness of customers to buy cars from a company that seemed about to go out of business have cut in half projected sales of the stylish, economical K-car. Even the once popular sub-compact Dodge Omnis and Plymouth Horizons are selling poorly, and dealers now have more than a 120-day supply, twice the desired amount. As the auto industry last week prepared for its annual holiday shutdown, only three of Chrysler's six assembly plants were operating. The company, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chrysler Goes Back to the Well | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

Still, the movies keep trying-especially after the success of the Star Wars saga, which has comic-adventure roots. Two big-budget Christmas releases illustrate the perils and pleasures of going to popular culture's sub-basement in search of material. Flash Gordon, which expensive but unpretentious, works; Popeye, which reflects the critical and sociological chat about comics in recent years, does not. Indeed, it is one of the most grievously miscalculated movies in recent memory, claustrophobic in manner, mean in spirit, downright grotesque to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Comics into Film: Bam! Pow! Eek! | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

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