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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case, the company has the last laugh. One of its executives was suffering from a bad case of flu when he met with COWPS officials in Washington after the President's phone call. Some time later COWPS Director Barry Bosworth and several other agency officials were put to bed with what their colleagues are calling "Sears' revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Slash at Sears | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...racist "blackbuck" image of themselves. They became content to mouth slogans ("Black Power") and affect Afro hairdos and guns, and all but abandoned effective political action. "Come 1966," says Wallace in her polemic style, "the black man had two pressing tasks before him: a white woman in every bed and a black woman under every heel." In response, she says, black women became more submissive and, despite the image of some social scientists of black society as a matriarchy, no longer behaved like the mythic black superwoman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Black Myths | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...portion of his off-hours encouraging his daughters to sing. Maggie, at 27 the eldest of the sisters, started writing songs at the age of eight. She and Terre performed them first in the family living room in Park Ridge, N.J., then later on the back of a flat-bed truck in nearby shopping centers for the benefit of a local politician and the glory of the Democratic Party. Terre, 26, the most voluble Roche, shipped off a couple of these campaign ditties to the White House for L.B.J. to use in his battle against Barry Goldwater; she also wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Valentines from the Danger Zone | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...wildcatters. The breed's home base is the boom city of Houston, and the risks and rewards of the profession are reflected in a remark by one of its members, Chester Benge: "The oil business is one of the few businesses in the world where you can go to bed poor and wake up rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Big Oil Game | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...Corporation doesn't own stock in companies doing business in Cambodia. Sir, forgive me, it takes a high sense of personal drama for a person to look on the receipt of stock proxy as an inescapable moral intanglement. Such a person with such a fluttery heart should stay in bed at day and leave his mail in the mailbox. He should certainly stay away from Harvard Square, where he will be accosted by every kind of moral and material beggar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Transcript of Faculty Meeting | 5/3/1979 | See Source »

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