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...know she is lying. The proof is in the love note you just intercepted. Ask her about the man who wrote it, and she says she never heard of him. Confront her with his letter, and she changes her tune: "You have certainly stooped to a new low, Inspector, opening other people's mail!" Then she spills her story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Putting Fiction on a Floppy | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...computer "novels" produced by Infocorn, a Cambridge, Mass.-based software publishing house, the player is given a casebook of evidence, a floppy disc containing the plot, and twelve hours to unravel the mystery. If the murderer is not found in the allotted time, a character named Chief Inspector Klutz takes the player off the case. The program shuts down automatically and must be replayed from the beginning. As Deadline opens, a wealthy businessman has been found dead in the library of his mansion from a mysterious drug overdose. The player, who takes the role of inspector, has been called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Putting Fiction on a Floppy | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...Barden postal inspector said the pyramid schemes at least probably does not violate postal regulations. If the solicitation is already complete and the mailed payment is "basically an afterthought," the game may not involve mail fraud, inspector Jay F. Ahernethy explained...

Author: By John H. Tatk, | Title: Chain Letter Attracts Students Despite Questions on Legality | 11/15/1983 | See Source »

Using the accident report files by officers at the scene, Cambridge Police Inspector Francis L. Calogero described the accident by saying. "The bicycle was in the middle of the traffic lane on Kirkland St. The car was completing a left turn from Quincy St. to Kirkland St. when [the driver] saw the bicycle coming towards him. He moved over towards the yellow line and applied his brakes, but was unable to stop in time...

Author: By John N. Tate, | Title: Student Biker Fine After Being Struck By Car on Campus | 11/8/1983 | See Source »

...also here at the hospital that we encountered the American volunteer doctor from the medical school described by the Inspector. Among all the other broken fragments, it somehow did not seem so unnatural that the doctor was a Cuban-but from a family of exiles living in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Dr. Raúl Jirménez, 31, had made his way to the hospital soon after watching the first paratroopers dropping from the sky near his home facing the stretch of wide white beach known as Grand Anse. He had been here ever since. The hospital, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Images from an Unlikely War | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

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