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...throng to "Spots and Dots," the teaching staff can hardly be expected to multiply by a factor of 10 in two weeks' time. Director of the Core Curriculum Edward T. Wilcox said recently that the University "will continue to try, but we have been unable to find enough qualified TA's for a lot of the Core courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meet the Demand | 2/7/1985 | See Source »

Just the cadence of their names--Dan Ma-ri-no, Joe Mon-ta-na--the similarity of their bearing and stock--Pennsylvania grimy--the disparity of their builds and sun coasts--Miami and San Francisco--the level of their confidence, the quality of their arrogance, even the way they can make hair curl up under helmets and stand up on necks suggested a confrontation was coming one day. If all of the National Football League quarterbacks were ringed in a battle royal, wouldn't these two be the ones left standing at the end? That roughly describes the process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Up in Arms: Two to Tangle | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

...Manila, and Jaime Ongpin, president of the Benguet mining corporation. Also included are Corazon Aquino, Ninoy's widow, and Agapito ("Butz") Aquino, his younger brother. The opposition draws experience from such veteran Marcos foes as Salvador Laurel, head of the opposition United Nationalist Democratic Organization coalition, and Lorenzo Tañada, 86, the grand old man of the opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Third Alternative | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

There is still a lot of money on the ta ble, but after Kansas City all bets have been settled. That was not summer thunder in the air- over Arrowhead Stadium. It was the unmistakable sound of the Jacksons hitting the jackpot, all to the strains - yes, Michael sings them both -of Billie Jean and Beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Bringing Back the Magic | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

...Ta bad night in the Kremlin," Edward Wilkinson announced as he hoisted a glass of champagne in mid-Pacific, 4,800 miles from California. Wilkinson, director of U.S. Army effort known as "Homing Overlay Experiment," had good reason to hope for some insomnia in Moscow: his project scored its first success last week. A special interceptor rocket fired from Meek Island in the Kwajalein archipelago had struck the dummy warhead of a Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that had been launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California some 30 earlier. Military analyst described the collision, which pulverized both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bull's-Eye in Space | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

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