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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people are not following because they are in a state of denial. We are about to lose a part of the American dream and to follow Carter is to accept rather than deny. When they perceive the paucity of paths before them, Americans will support the President's efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 27, 1979 | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...contrast, most of the minorities are citizens; moreover, fully 40% of the country's nonwhites were born in Britain, and that proportion is swelling fast as a result of a birth rate that is 50% higher than the national average. Yet there is an almost unconscious refusal to accept them. In the last major poll on racial issues, taken by Gallup in February 1978, 49% thought that nonwhites should be offered financial help to return "home," as if they were not already there. Indeed, the British seem to regard the race problem as an unfortunate accident from which they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Facing a Multiracial Future | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...began showing a profit in 1973 and last year had pretax profits of $140 million on sales that totaled close to $ 1 billion. Although environmentalists were alarmed at the potential damage -indeed, smoke often hangs like a gray curtain for days over Sasolburg-people are now prepared to accept the air pollution at the remote site. Says former SASOL Chairman Pierre Etienne Rousseau: "The oil supply situation shocked many of us into a new sense of reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Synfuel Success | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...very quickly Fellini bends his dramatic situation into a cautionary tale about the dangers of anarchy. The musicians begin by goofing off and refusing to play together; then they break into open, violent revolt against their German conductor (played by Bald win Baas); finally they calm down and accept their leader's authority. The film's ominous finale shows the conductor barking Hitler-like commands to his now submissive charges. In other words, Fellini is making the conservative point that revolution is but a way station on the route to fascism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dissonance | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...Hooff, who started the colony in 1971, the adoption is an exhilarating success. He points out that the new mother knew all along she was accepting a baby not her own. His next task: introducing Roosje to the colony in hopes that the other chimps will accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Unlikely Mama | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

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