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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should someone ask me whether I would indicate the West such as it is today as a model to my country, frankly I would have to answer negatively. No, I could not recomment your society in its present state as an ideal for the transformation of ours. Through intense suffering our country has now achieved a spiritual development of such intensity that the Western system in its present state of spiritual exhaustion does not look attractive. Even those characteristics of your life which I have just mentioned are extremely saddening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'A World Split Apart' | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, said it is clear from a placement test in mathematics on the pre-calculus level, given to all freshmen for the first time last year, that many entering freshmen are poorly prepared in mathematics. One-third of last year's class could not answer correctly half of the questions on the test. Gleason heads a group of Faculty members who are trying to decide what level of mathematics should be required of students under the Core, but he will not comment on his group's recommendations until they present a report to the Faculty...

Author: By Amy B. Mclntosh, | Title: Reaching the Core of the Matter | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...worries about bowlegs or "fanny over hang," the bane of many bathing beauties past. In fact, quite another sort of disaster threatens. She does not eat. She cannot sleep. And she loses a crucial 15 Ibs. What to do? More sleep is Charlotte's prescription. But the answer to Christine's problem lies in another notorious nemesis of Miss America girls, her love life. Then she gets a few long and understanding letters from her boyfriend, a second-year man at U.S.C. Medical School whose support of her Miss America effort is important to Christine. Miracle. She eats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Practicing Swimsuit for Atlantic City | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

Warned that students were bound to get lower grades at Rochester than they did in high school, one worried mother asked who would help her son through the trauma of his first C. In answer, a panel of about 15 deans and assistants outlined a variety of academic, social and psychological counseling programs. Sighed another relieved mother, "They really understand kids here. "And parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Parents' Prep | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...records were broken the first week. Yet the subject was regarded as so out-of-date that most film makers considered the producers crazy to gamble $3.5 million on it. What is this kinky movie? And what famous male star appears in drag in the title role? If you answer Lassie to both questions, you will be given instant directions to Radio City Music Hall, where thousands of kids are laughing and crying every day at the trials of Hollywood's top dog in The Magic of Lassie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Lassie's Back | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

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