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...European capitals, where the British results were received on the 31st anniversary of Dday, there was relief over the mercifully decisive end to a debate that had kept the EEC in a state of suspended animation for the past 15 months. As Roy Jenkins observed, D-day marked "Britain's re-entry into Europe . . . Now we are staying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Saying 'Yes' to Europe | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

...workers scurried about removing dead trees, filling potholes and handing out shiny new garbage cans to voters. On primary election day, Democratic-machine lieutenants stood two and three abreast at street corners on the predominantly black West Side to steer people to the polls. Assistant precinct captains in the 31st Ward solicitously helped voters find parking places and brushed the snow from their windshields. Ward heelers elsewhere rounded up the elderly, the infirm and even the West Madison Street derelicts and took them to the voting booths. In these and other ways, Chicago's 25,000 or so patronage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHICAGO: Daley Regnant | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...were surprised by the shallow pitch of the slope chosen for the giant slalom. While they had been skiing well in Hampshire, the hard edging techniques that they acquired were not the fastest way down the flat OS course. Raines, Adler and sophomore Peter Anton finished a disappointing 29th, 31st, and 38th respectively. Peter Andersen of Dartmouth sporting a skin tight silvery blue downhill suit won the race with a technically superb...

Author: By David J. States, | Title: Skiers Tenth at UVm Winter Carnival | 2/5/1975 | See Source »

...meet served as a tune up for the big Ivy League clash with Princeton in the IAB on the 31st. Harvard, after drubbing Dartmouth last Saturday, is a serious contender for the Ivy title, and the Princeton meet will be crucial. Mike Dee is expected to be back from a knee injury sustained at Clarion, to wrestle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grapplers Pin a 35-11 Loss on MIT | 1/15/1975 | See Source »

...Wilson. France's Georges Pompidou died in April and was replaced by the progressive conservative Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. West Germany's Willy Brandt resigned in the shadow of a spy scandal, and was succeeded by moderate Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt. Italy lost its 31st government of the postwar era. Portugal deposed Marcello Caetano, the dictatorial heir of Salazar. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie was stripped of hereditary power going back 2,500 years and trundled off to house arrest by a military junta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: An Uncertain Year for Leaders | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

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