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...blond locks that gave Canadian Bobby Hull the nickname of "Golden Jet" shortly after he started playing hockey for the Chicago Black Hawks 15 years ago. But 33-year-old Bobby is more golden than he ever was-the new World Hockey Association has just signed him to abandon Chicago and become a player-coach for the Winnipeg Jets for a staggering $2.75 million over the next ten years, including an immediate cash bonus of $1 million. The W.H.A., which calls the deal the fattest contract ever signed by a professional athlete, hopes that the superstar left-wing will give...
...number of other educators agree that there is little evidence of lasting benefits from early schooling, but they would not abandon it altogether. Says Psychologist David Elkind of the University of Rochester: "A lot of parents are being sold a bill of goods, but the Moores go to an extreme. If learning is geared to the pace of a child's development, it can be beneficial." Psychologist Earl Schaefer of the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health is also wary of saying that the home alone is the best environment. But, like the Moores...
...leading Democrat took this unhappy inventory last week: No one can block McGovern's nomination, and if McGovern is nominated, he cannot win in November. His only chance would be to abandon the South and Border states, shift his positions to regain the moderate, middle-ground Democrats and hope somehow for a sweep through the Eastern industrial states-Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania-plus Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and California...
Tougher Labor. Two of TIME'S economists-Alan Greenspan and Beryl Sprinkel-tend to agree. Said Sprinkel: "There is a fifty-fifty chance that after the election, the Administration will declare a victory over inflation and abandon the control program." But the majority of TIME'S Board figure that controls will be needed well into next year, partly because the dangers of rising prices will become increasingly severe as the economy continues to rebound. In addition, labor will be tougher to keep in line next year because there will be far more-and bigger-contracts up for renegotiation...
...parity. "No power on earth is stronger than the United States of America today," he declared. "And none will be stronger than the United States in the future." Taking aim at his critics on the left, Nixon drew loud applause by praising the Congress for its refusal to "unilaterally abandon the ABM, unilaterally pulling back our forces from Europe and drastically cutting the defense budget...