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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accompanied by her husband Denis, Thatcher visited a Cadbury chocolate factory, donning a white smock over her elegant suit. She spent several minutes cramming brightly wrapped chocolate eggs into yellow boxes. "How many to the box?" she asked over the roar of the machinery. "Forty-eight," was the answer. "Can I do it?" she asked at once, and promptly sat down to pack two boxes. She lamely tried to stuff chocolates into trays that glided slowly past her on a conveyor belt, but found the job difficult. "It takes concentration, doesn't it?" she said with a frown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Iron Lady vs. Sunny Jim | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...courses at the black schools was the key to further integration. Said U.N.C. President William Friday: "Our basic interest is to give more opportunity to go to college. You don't do that by closing programs." Adds Albert N. Whiting, black chancellor of North Carolina Central: "My answer to HEW is that we should place the emphasis on enhancing our curriculum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: North Carolina vs. HEW | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

WHEN BOSTON demonstrators confronted Gov. Edward J. King here in Massachusetts and demanded a halt to nuclear power, pointing out the grave dangers it poses, he responded, "But we NEEEEED it." Jimmy Carter gave essentially the same answer when asked if his opinions on nuclear power had changed because of the Three Mile Island accdent. They hadn't. In other words, we are addicted to nuclear power...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: A Mushrooming Movement | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

SALT should be supported; it is a positive, albeit small, second step towards regulating an increasingly dangerous and costly nuclear weapons competition. But it is far from the answer to the dreams of arms controllers; and if it encourages the U.S. to spend $100 billion-plus on new strategic systems, it has not served its function and will not be worth further support...

Author: By Paul Walker, | Title: The Myths of Defense | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

...answer, quite simply, is nothing. The 1979 Harvard baseball team is, make no mistake about it, a very good team. That it has failed as yet to duplicate the greatness of its 1978 counterpart is due primarily to the randomness of highs and lows that can affect a sport like baseball over a 30-game stretch...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: What's Wrong, Brownie? | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

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