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...evening featured John Katz, frequent guest on The David Letterman Show, Jimmy Tingle of Star Search fame, and Harvard's own improvisation group On Thin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...whole building is hopeless and the only thing to do is raze it and start over again with materials prefabricated in the U.S. "Putting up the building has just got to be a bugger's dream," says one expert. Hal Lipset, a San Francisco private investigator who won fame in the 1960s by concealing a bug in a martini olive, agrees: "The whole building is one big microphone." If that advice is followed, however, the U.S. for many years would have to keep conducting diplomacy in the old building, which has apparently been sown with sophisticated bugs that have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of High-Tech Snooping | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...average stay at St. Elizabeths for criminally insane patients is five years. Doctors argue that Hinckley is no more of a risk than the hundreds of others released every day. Were it not for the fame of his victim, they insist, he would probably have already been freed. But Hinckley's case, which comes up for review every six months, will inevitably remain problematic. "There is no precedent for dealing with assassins," says Dr. Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist who testified at the 1982 Hinckley trial. "None have ever been released from custody alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hinckley's Hope: He seeks a day on the town | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...most graffiti refers not to fame, but to a classic Harvard experience--too much work...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: MAKING YOUR MARK ON HARVARD | 4/17/1987 | See Source »

...Yankee shortstop great Phil Rizzuto once again failed to garner the necessary votes to gain entrance into baseball's Hall of Fame the last time around. While Rizzuto waited, 1986 produced one of the finest crops of shortstops in many years. In fact, one shortstop collected more hits (213) last season than any other player at that position in the 20th century. Name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1987 Sports Cube Baseball Trivia Quiz | 4/14/1987 | See Source »

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