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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These are difficult questions, and I can't pretend to have an answer to them. However, I react strangely when I hear about the high school All-American hockey player who was just accepted with a 375 verbal SAT score (you get 200 points for signing your name). I don...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: A Beginning and an End | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

While such elaborate procedures might be justified in the case of a heart operation, doctors generally agree that expensive technology is used much more often than it needs to be, again because no one is watching costs. For instance, hospitals scramble to buy the fanciest equipment available. Secretary of Health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Cost: What Limit? | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

You can go home again, especially if you go home a winner. Spectacular Bid and his entourage returned in style last week, winning the Preakness by 5½ lengths before home-town fans at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course. It was a dazzling performance by the big gray son...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Welcome Home! | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

He tries to speak, manages a halting, coverall "Thank you very much" delivered in some unheard-of accent that sounds like south-of-the-border Maltese. Then he dives ahead, attempting another impersonation. Same accent. Same tone. Same delivery. Now the fear hits again, so bad this time that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Laughter from the Toy Chest | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

"When I perform, it's very personal," Kaufman says. "I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room." He means this literally. The Mighty Mouse record he sings along to is his own, from childhood; the cartoons he shows-including a couple of kindergarten antiprejudice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Laughter from the Toy Chest | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

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