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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's Second District, on Long Island, is considered one of the natural habitats for elephants. But young Thomas Downey, with energy and charm, claimed the place in 1974 for the Democrats. At the ripe old age of 29, he has a good chance of hanging on. In the next days he will tramp his district from dawn to sunset. He will attend the Mother Cabrini Festival and countless block parties. Downey will loiter at the commuter train stations, roll through areas in his mobile van. Every voter will be invited to a Sunday-morning tea at his parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: How to Get Elected | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...represented the State of Israel, Meir Peil interjected: "Oy!" Begin turned on him once more: "Oy and oy to this heckling. I understand it hurts you, but it will continue hurting you for many years." While several members shouted "Amen," Peil shot back: "I hope [he] will reach the age of 120 but not be the Premier for a long time." By session's end, Israeli television viewers might have been hoping for a peace plan for their Knesset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Storm in the Knesset | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...hiring of new faculty members could decline by more than 30 per cent as a result of the new amendment to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, a recent study by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) reports...

Author: By John C. Breen, | Title: Professors' Poll Predicts Loss Of Tenured Posts | 7/28/1978 | See Source »

...raises the minimum age for involuntary retirement from 65 to 70, a move that some educators say might force colleges to lay off younger professors to keep their faculties and budgets balanced. Experts add that because the older, tenured professors usually receive higher salaries than their younger colleagues, schools may also have to freeze hiring...

Author: By John C. Breen, | Title: Professors' Poll Predicts Loss Of Tenured Posts | 7/28/1978 | See Source »

...age of 62, Worth has retained all her incandescent power and dazzling skill. In After the Season she plays the erratic and disturbed wife of a national political figure. Asserting that "something stinks in the U.S.A.," she is paranoid, sometimes hallucinatory, and always fearful, seeing conspiracies everywhere and given to phoning the press about her suspicions...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Worth Is Always Worth Seeing | 7/28/1978 | See Source »

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