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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...white man portends ill; the heroes devote themselves to preserving the old Mahto ways. Nor is the book's message a new one. Ahbleza's last prophecy for his people, the Mahto band of the Teton Nation, is to recognize there are good white men as well as bad white men. Ruth Beebe Hill echoes this statement: there were good Indians as well as bad Indians...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Perpetuating an American Stereotype | 3/20/1979 | See Source »

...gave the Harvard team a character of its own and left his mark on the Ivy League. During his sometimes-brilliant, often-frustrating four-year Crimson career, Havens tasted both glory and defeat. After an outstanding freshman year on the '75-'76 national title team, Havens met with some bad luck when the high priests of collegiate racqueteering decided to change the composition of the official squash ball. The new softer spheroid left the brawny Havens's playing style obsolete and he became, as assistant squash coach and former Crimson captain Mark Panarese remarked, "a dinosaur...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Ivy League Squash: Why Are the Tigers Winning? | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Industry spokesmen contend that bad weather and their own difficulties in deciphering the bill's complex regulations limited their drilling. But industry had little trouble untangling the complexities of the price deregulation. Natural gas prices have begun to climb. Government experts and gas company executives expect increases of 18% to 25% this year in Chicago, New York City, Memphis, Louisville and elsewhere. A similar rise is expected even in gas-rich Oklahoma over the next few months. The Department of Energy expects that the higher prices will cost U.S. consumers $1.7 billion to $2 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Natural Gas Up | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...over the West, Bibles are as handy as the nearest paperback bookstore or hotel room. But for harassed Christians in the Soviet Union, a Bible can cost more than two weeks' wages on the black market. Things are almost as bad, and sometimes worse, in many satellite nations. To fill the deeply felt need of millions, at the height of the cold war freelance couriers began systematic efforts to smuggle books to Christians in Eastern Europe. Today Bible smuggling is carried on by a network of at least 40 Protestant organizations pursuing the world's most extraordinary missionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Smugglers of the Word | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...name of some forgotten dog competes with book critiques. Analysis of a philosophical essay mixes with scuttlebutt of a gossip column: a horoscope predicted a bad end; a Vassar campus newspaper considered the writer's visit to New York "one of the cultural events of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strangeness of the Stranger | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

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