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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidate himself is looking well, conveying an image of sun-dappled middle age. His hair is no longer "prematurely orange," to recall Gerald Ford's devastating remark from the 1976 campaign, but a dull and uniform brown. He stands tall (6 ft. 1 in.) and mixes smoothly and easily with the party faithful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Candidate Reagan Is Born Again | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...mourners at Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris were her three ex-husbands. So ended last week the tragic story of Actress Jean Seberg, who was plucked out of obscurity as a 17-year-old Iowan to star in Otto Preminger's 1957 movie Saint Joan, and who died at age 40 in the back seat of her car of an overdose of barbiturates. But even as she was buried, there unfolded in the U.S. an appalling account of how the FBI in 1970 tried to ruin her reputation with a planted rumor, setting in motion the series of emotional breakdowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The FBI vs. Jean Seberg | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...York City, they had demanded Puerto Rican independence and refused to rule out violence. During a press conference at the U.N., Collazo said, "I decide whether terrorism is necessary after I return to Puerto Rico." Lebrón added, "I am a revolutionary and a member of the atomic age ... I hate bombs but we might have to use them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: We Have Nothing to Repent | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...road leading through sugar-cane fields. The casket contained the body of Juan Latorgo. His grieving mother, Estrellita Latorgo, 21, says that she took her son first to the local hospital and then to a witch doctor. Neither could arrest the symptoms of malnutrition that killed Juan, at the age of seven months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Powder Keg of the Pacific | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...wrote Agostinho Neto, the poet, doctor and revolutionary who became Angola's first President in 1975. The tom toms pounded for Neto last week when he died in a Moscow hospital at the age of 56, following surgery for cancer of the pancreas and cirrhosis of the liver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANGOLA: Neto's Death | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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