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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After one of her two assailants was convicted on criminal charges (the other man charged in the case jumped bail) Trowbridge filed a $1.2 million suit against Harvard, claiming that 'woefully inadequate" security allowed the attackers to enter the apartment building and assault her. A walk around the building showed that the 60-unit building lacked locks on the outside doors and a standard intercom system...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: A Harsh Silence | 11/21/1985 | See Source »

...more and more hockey players may resemble Hell's Angels in the future. "Last year we were the first that I know of to use the [Itech] masks," Stone says. While few teams followed suit at the time, Crimson Coach Bill Cleary predicts "more and more teams will be wearing...

Author: By Ted Ullyot, | Title: Checkmating Injuries | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

...performance is scripted (very scripted, actually). It is also rehearsed (very rehearsed, actually), down to the last flamboyant gesture. He appears in an up-turned collar, flowing pink cravat and a suit of shimmering green. His hair is a delicate tint of mauve and he holds theatrical court from a cluster of antique-looking furniture. Subjects covered range from the excesses of Eva Peron to the finer, eccentric points of domestic science ("never sweep the place where you live, because after the first four years the dust doesn't get any worse...

Author: By Richard J. Howells, | Title: Mr. Manners | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

...like his writings, wait until you see his wardrobe. Though Crisp claims to own only hand-me-downs, he wears them as if they were 7th Avenue originals. He cuts quite a pose in his shiny green and black lame suit, black fedora hat and his longish light purple hair. Though this may not be the type of outfit that will win votes in the Boston area, Crisp is ever the politician...

Author: By Emily J. M. knowlton, | Title: Marquis de Style | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong, 80, met with the Time Newstour in Hanoi's French colonial-style Chu Tich Phu presidential palace. Dressed formally in a black, high-collared suit that accentuated his bronze features and high-combed silver hair, Pham took questions for more than an hour in a large, red- carpeted receiving hall, under a huge bust of his mentor, Ho Chi Minh. Throughout the session, Pham lived up to his reputation for haughty intractability, flashing anger at some questions, receiving others with a scornful laugh. He also showed an intransigent commitment to maintaining his country's doctrinaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Pham Van Dong | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

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