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What Administrators and council members are looking for in the results of the three-day plebiscite is where exactly the student body stands. Are undergraduates supportive of the existing procedure governed the principle of first choice maximazation or are they ready for the introduction of a more radical, random lottery that assigns students to Houses regardless of preference? While strong arguments can be made or a random lottery for equality's sake, we believe such a method would damage, if not ruin, the spirit of community the Houses system was originally intended to foster...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker | Title: Homes, Not Houses | 2/6/1985 | See Source »

Heasley was asked by Galaxy to return a group of Minneapolis-area residents from a three-day outing to Caesars casino on Lake Tahoe, Nev., over Super Bowl weekend. On Sunday many of those who did not fly off to the game attended a Super Bowl party at the casino. The mood of the travelers was light as they took a bus to Reno, where the Electra was waiting for them. At the last minute, Douglas Abalan, 38, and his wife Beverly, dreading the four-hour flight and the 5 a.m. arrival in Minneapolis, checked into Reno's MGM Grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crash of a Troubled Bird | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...host of the two-hour talk show Good Morning America and narrated an antidrug documentary for PBS, The Chemical People. She is about to announce an unusual high-profile variation on the theme, inviting the spouses of two dozen heads of state to the U.S. for a three-day antidrug forum in Washington and Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Co-Starring At the White House | 1/14/1985 | See Source »

...during this scheduled stopover that some of the hijackers probably slipped on board. Security officials at Dubai International Airport had spent a busy night ensuring that Britain's Princess Anne departed safely after her three-day visit to the gulf. So they were not overly thorough in checking passengers hurrying through to catch the plane to Karachi, which was leaving at about the same time as the royal flight. Several youths in their 20s who had arrived on a connecting flight from Beirut evidently managed to bypass a security check in the transit lounge and went directly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Horror Abroad Flight 221 | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...last week's visit by King Hussein of Jordan was another step toward ending Egypt's isolation within the Arab world, which began when President Anwar Sadat accepted the Camp David accords and subsequently signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. For the Jordanian monarch, the three-day visit was aimed at forging a moderate Arab consensus in the Middle East. His plan: to convene a peace conference of all those with a stake in the region, including the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: A King Talks of Peace | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

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