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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Speaker Edgerton L. ("Bubba") Henry and State Senator Edgar ("Sonny") Mouton and give them top jobs in his administration in exchange for their support. The outraged legislators claimed that Lambert made the offer, not Treen, and they challenged Lambert to join them in taking a lie detector test. Then Charles ("Buddy") Roemer III, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress last fall, charged that Lambert had also proposed to pick up his campaign debts in return for an endorsement. Lambert said that it was a "damned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Battle Royal for Huey's Throne | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...Then his expression changed to a high-voltage gloat: "But look at that score!" The readout on the small, gray, liquid crystal screen said 542, which is middling-titanic for Blockbuster, the best of several mind-destroying games that can be played on the midget console. Blockbuster is a test of reflexes and anticipation; twiddling the machine's knob moves an electronic paddle back and forth across the bottom of the 1½-in.-square display screen, and the object is to bounce an electronic bullet so that it destroys a wall, block by block. Milton Bradley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Beeping, Thinking Toys | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...October, ETS failed to send out admissions tickets to its popular Law School Admissions Test (LSAT). And as of last week, the service had yet to send out those grade and LSAT score summaries it usually starts mailing in October to American law schools that depend on the reports for evaluating applicants. The delays have slowed admissions work throughout the country...

Author: By Richard F. Strasser, | Title: Testing 1-2-3 | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...course, LSAT scores, like all results from standardized tests, are secret, dark wonders not meant for overt discussion. After all, phone lines might be bugged and Third World undercover agents could be listening, hoping to gain valuable information about the nation's young people by hearing their test scores...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: The Crazy Kids at ETS | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

Tenants complained yesterday that workmen worked on lighting and wiring in Apartment 1 in the 16-unit building. When the ordinance, which faces a court test later this winter, went into effect, a tenant lived in the room, another tenant, Bernice Rogowitz, said yesterday...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Sumner Rd. Tenants to File Complaint | 12/7/1979 | See Source »

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