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...only bright spot is the prospect that Mr. Carter will conform to the age-old political practice of not living up to his campaign promises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Nov. 29, 1976 | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...decolonization of this continent, as well as the formation of a new society. The Declaration of Independence proclaimed in 1776 was a harvesting of the most important fruits of the Enlightenment, a synthesis of centuries of Old World experience serving a young society, one that had shed the age-old burden of stratification into social estates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Message To America: From Mexico's President Luis Echeverr | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...niken and other writers like Gerhard R. Steinhauser (Jesus Christ: Heir to the Astronauts. Pocket Books. $1.75) are avidly exploiting age-old yearnings. As the schlock merchants of fiction science, they peddle an old cosmological recipe: simply ad astra, mix feverishly and half bake. Naturally, their theories are highly vulnerable to anyone who, like Ronald Story, takes the time to examine them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worlds in Collusion | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

...modern counterparts would be hard pressed to find fault with it today. Despite mind-boggling advances in science and technology over the past several decades?the harnessing of nuclear energy, the mastery of space flight, the breaking of the genetic code?humankind has made little progress in its age-old battle with bugs. For a brief time after World War II, newly developed chemical pesticides gave scientists hope that the ultimate weapon against insects had been developed. Indeed, the bugs were sent temporarily into unprecedented retreat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bugs Are Coming | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...Black Dyad. More on the age-old battle in this dramatic analysis of black male/female relationships. Skillfully danced at the First Postion Workshop, 145 South Street, February 22 at 2 p.m. Donation...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Dance | 2/19/1976 | See Source »

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