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Qum is a city of 250,000 people that is drenched in dust, swept by howling, bitter-cold winds in winter and scorched by an angry sun in summer. A 19th century British traveler, James Morier, described Iran's religious center as a place in which, "excepting on the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: An Interview with Khomeini | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

Now, for better or worse, the movie's out, and initial response from both Trekdom and the outside world ("the mundanes") is ominous. When a True Trek Believer says "Well, maybe the sequel will be better" before the Enterprise even leaves dock, you know there are problems. The special effects...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Cheap Trek? | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

If Disturbing the Universe is a fair indication, Dyson spent the first twenty pages of his life as a child, the next eighty as a pure scientist, and the bulk of it, the final 150, as an ill-defined political spokesman, a defender of this and a believer in that...

Author: By Jaime O. Aisenberg, | Title: A Minor Disturbance | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Kennedy has a well-deserved reputation for being a tightwad, despite his income of roughly $700,000 a year, the main source of which is a blind trust. (Staffers have had to argue with him for even small raises.) But where his family is concerned he spends freely: $500,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Challenge | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

TO PUSH HIS IDEAS into place, Baker's Tennessee forces have been loading up the buses and making a base for their candidate in New Hampshire. The Tennessean is a firm believer in campaigning, although his daughter adds, "we don't expect to win in New Hampshire, but I think...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Mr. Statesman | 11/1/1979 | See Source »

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