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The Mobro's ill-starred journey resulted from a deal made by Alabama Entrepreneur Lowell Harrelson, founder of National Waste Contractors, Inc., to haul away a massive batch of refuse from Islip, N.Y., and other townships. After being freighted with the garbage -- which was mashed into some 2,200 untidy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Be a Litterbarge | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

The "stakeout" had begun at 11;00 on Thursday morning, the third day of maneuvering in the Senate over HR 2, an untidy, bloated package of $87.9 billion in transportation funds, with an increase in the speed limit tacked on to attract Western legislators' support. Rhetoric aside, nobody cared what...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: A Roadblock in the Capitol | 4/9/1987 | See Source »

Occasionally, while the elder Guinness is turning the TV dial, searching for the news or a nature program, he comes across one of his many selves. "I switch it off within 30 seconds," he says with a slight shudder. "Once I've done something, it doesn't really have any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alec Guinness Takes Off His Masks | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

To televise or not to televise has been a controversial question. The Senate killed three previous attempts, in 1981, 1982 and 1984, to allow video coverage. Those opposed to cameras in the chamber feared that exposure would forever alter the leisurely, idiosyncratic, old-boy nature of the Senate, which allows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Air: The Senate votes for television | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

Down at the post office the talk among people waiting for their mail is of how bad the cicadas are and how much worse they will get as they become more numerous. Over at the cafe the morning crowd is discussing how to do them in. Squashing them between thumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Missouri: the Cicada's Song | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

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