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...1940s to the 1960s; of a stroke; in Tryon, N.C. Their best-known characters were Pam and Jerry North, a sophisticated husband and wife team who unraveled complex crimes on stage, screen, radio and television, while adhering to one of Lockridge's cardinal rules: ''Never pin a murder on the butler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 5, 1982 | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...pin-neat, Northern California bedroom, a bespectacled 16-year-old who calls himself Marc communicates with several hundred unauthorized "tourists" on a computer magic carpet called ARPANET. This $3.3 million computer network maintained by the Defense Department provides a link between key contractors, but ARPANET has become a pen pal club, dating service and electronic magazine for youngsters and other computer hitchhikers gifted enough to join what is in effect a huge, electronic message service. In fact, TIME Correspondent Michael Moritz, working on a terminal near San Francisco, interviewed a teenage tourist in San Diego, using the ARPANET network. Marc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Pranksters, Pirates and Pen Pals | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...pin through the nipples on his chest...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: Resurgent Reed | 3/19/1982 | See Source »

Agrees Washington circuit judge Carl McGowan, "When you go on the bench and you're grappling with individual cases, you find it difficult to implement any theory of judicial review...I find it hard for the good judge to pin any sort of label on himself." Should Ely ever don judicial robes, "he'd be tripped up sooner or later by a case that doesn't fit. Ely on the bench would not be Ely in the book...It would be an evil man who would disregard justice and law to follow his own theory," McGowan says...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Turning the Law on its Head | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

Despite being perhaps the smallest heavyweight in the field. Phills is the tournament pin leader with two falls in a total of 2.30. He had had six small problems at the Eastern Championships when he wrestled tentatively, instead of attacking, but at the nationals has already barrelled into the quarter finals with two wins...

Author: By C. ROBERT Strauss, | Title: Phills Drops Opponents at Nationals; McNerney Loses in Early Competition | 3/12/1982 | See Source »

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