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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever Shevchenko's current value to the U.S., the CIA must continue protecting him, if only to keep from discouraging other would-be defectors. The first step is for the CIA once again to cloak him in anonymity. Shevchenko thus has gone back into hiding to await his new identity and ponder the fact that even in the U.S. you have got to be careful about whom you tryst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Saga of a Decadent Defector | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...right front seat of the four-seater, Boswell in the left. They received permission from the Lindbergh tower to make a practice approach under instrument conditions, since Lindbergh is the only airport in the area with the sophisticated electronics for guiding instrument flights. As they circled to await the assigned time for their training maneuver, a mild Santa Ana wind was blowing off the hot, dry desert out of the east, contrary to the normal prevailing winds off the Pacific. To aid the light craft, the tower gave approval for it to use Runway 9 (the designation for a runway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Death over San Diego | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...sign only one major decree, and even that will now become invalid: a sweeping reform of seminaries that he had postdated for December release. Ironically, the same document was approved by his predecessor, Pope Paul VI, whose postdated signature also became invalid when he died. Now the document must await the scrutiny of a third Pope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: The September Pope | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...quality." Giamatti once again reverts to the philosophical side of running a university. No specific plans or policies will emerge, and as he waves his right hand, and shifts his position on the couch, he seems to believe that if he has the right attitude toward the minefields which await him, he won't lose any limbs...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Giamatti at Yale: Professor Turns President | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

...liberal arts, where students know that few jobs await them upon graduation, the loss of students to more "practical" courses is greatest, and the consequent need to find new recruits is most urgent. For a professor, aggressive salesmanship is "just the beginning of what will be a very major development in the 1980s," predicts Clark Kerr, chairman of the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education. "Teachers are only just beginning to realize that there is a tremendous pool of buying power among students for electives." Of course there is nothing new in students evaluating their professors. Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hard Sell for Higher Learning | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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