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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fitzgerald hands the flag to a team of four fliers from nearby Hanscom Air Force Base so they can raise it over the school while the band plays the national anthem. But with the brass looking on, they run into problems--the halyards are too thick for the grommets in the corners of the flag, and try as they will--and they try as they will for fully five minutes--the goddamn thing will not go up. Finally, a little desperately, Colonel Phillips goes up to help. At last, the flag goes up and the band begins to play...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Integrity, Responsibility, Honesty... | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...Whether it has been declared or not," said Iraqi Defense Minister Adnan Khairallah early on, "it is in fact war." The struggle escalated quickly and as it did, spread to key oil facilities on both sides-Basra, Kirkuk and Mosul in Iraq, Abadan and Kharg island in Iran. With thick black smoke pluming from bombed tank farms and refineries, petroleum-consuming nations around the globe anxiously calculated and then recalculated the implications. Said one U.S. official in tallying up the damage: "Once oil installations became fair game, the stakes became much higher for everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War in the Persian Gulf | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...POOR MENSCH has been analyzed to death. His children by his first analyst, Dr. Chomsky, are now attending college. To cover expenses he has sold his table at Elaine's and moved into a kibbutz on 94th St. where the sabras have taken to wearing thick glasses and tweed sports jackets. He has confused life with his underwear, sex with lust, and death with a bag lady waving a machete at the fountain in Central Park...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: More Kugelmass | 10/3/1980 | See Source »

WOULD YOU READ a thick, red volume somnolently entitled Long Range Planning: Inventory, Policies and Recommendations? Apparently, neither would many University administrators...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Getting There Getting Nowhere | 10/1/1980 | See Source »

...station WJR 760, Detroit." The Bengals have just won their ninth in a row and have moved from fifth to second place in a matter of two weeks. Manager Sparky Anderson defiantly declares that if the Tigers are seven games out on July 20, they'll be in the thick of the race down to the wire...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Old Tiger Fans Never Die | 9/26/1980 | See Source »

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