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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BORN. To Actor Christopher (Superman) Reeve, 27; and his English fiancée Gae Exton, 28, an agent; a son; in London, where Reeve is shooting Superman II.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Murray Gurfein, 72, federal judge who rejected the Nixon Administration's 1971 suit to block the New York Times's publication of the Pentagon papers; of a heart attack; in New York City. An affable, erudite New Yorker, Gurfein graduated from Harvard Law School in 1930 and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

If a physicist says he is being sent off to a salt mine these days, he may not be joking. He could be heading 40 km (25 miles) east of Cleveland, where an 81-ton digging machine is carving a huge cavity in a salt mine 600 meters (2,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diamonds May Not Be Forever | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Now that idea is being challenged by, among others, Physicists Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow of Harvard and Pakistani Abdus Salam, winners of this year's Nobel Prize in physics for showing an underlying unity of two of nature's four basic forces: electromagnetism and the so-called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diamonds May Not Be Forever | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

There was one case, she remembers well, when she was turned down 21 consecutive times. But Patsy Morris is not one to take rejection personally, and she finally got an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer to say yes. Small wonder she runs into resistance: what she wants is 200 to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Queen of Death Row | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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