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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hopefuls last week attacked what now seemed their best immediate target, Carter's foreign policy. Ronald Reagan led the way: "I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into the escape helicopter." Former Texas Governor John Connally charged that the coming SALT ΙΙ treaty will do nothing "but legitimize and condone the Soviets' overtaking the United States in strategic arms between now and 1985." Onetime CIA Director George Bush complained that even the Chinese Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter: Black and Blue | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...authorities may have taken such extreme measures to find Yates because of an accident last year, when a pair of climbers illegally attempted to scale the mountain. One of the climbers fell and broke his arm. If it hadn't been for a ranger who spotted them--much as Yates was spotted--no one would have found...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Disobedience a la Thoreau: The Case of Gus Yates | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

...second play fares much better. After a minute break. Porter in white, black bra strap sliding down her arm, launches into a gutsy chat about her lost gloves, her almost lover, and her father's death. Here she has a character to play, and she plays it for all its worth. Her streetwise manner and stance never break as she cracks her jokes, and snares a light for her cigarette from a man in the audience, yet she is suddenly vulnerable remembering the pointlessness of her father's death. We can forgive her occasional stumbling, as she catches...

Author: By Alice A. Brown, | Title: Politics at the Ex | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

...other fencers, skipper Gene Vastola, as usual, had the best record on the day. He swept aside three Eli fencers with identical 5-2 scores. Against his first opponent, Bruce Murray, Vastola had two almost double-jointed touches. By making his arm and blade into a "V" by bending his wrist back at least 90 degrees, he slipped around Murray's blade for the touches. Epee fencers Russ Kaphan and Rob Kaplan each had 2-1 records...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Crimson Fencers Slash Bulldogs, 17-10 Amid Controversy Concerning Touches | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...vital to the body as oil is to the U.S. economy. Demand for it is on the rise, and it is, quite literally, providing Americans with a shot in the arm from abroad. That precious and increasingly controversial commodity is "Euroblood," the slightly irreverent nickname for the growing quantities of red blood cells collected from donors in Europe and transfused into patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Euroblood Glut? | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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