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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lance Morrow should have mentioned that the best evidence of the peaceful coexistence of science and religion is the Big Bang theory, which was conceived and stated (1927) by a Catholic priest-professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, Canon Georges Lemaitre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1979 | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...possibly expect to come up with the answer to the Big Bang while we are still troubled with the question of the chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1979 | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...silver hair drawn back in a bun: "I sold three quilts at that auction down at the Coon Club last October. Made $200. Maybe I'll do even better next time around." Skinny but indomitable at 95, Floyd ("Unk") Hayter, whose wife Bess thinks the town's big mistake was not getting guns and running the APCO people out when they first appeared, gloomily confronts the future: "If that judge is against us I don't know what we'll do. Jail used to be a disgrace, but I don't reckon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: Taking On a Dam Site | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...area destruction would go up a half, the U.S.'s equivalent capacity by onefourth; the Soviet ability to destroy our buried missiles would increase tenfold, ours to destroy theirs would go up fourfold. Nitze rejects the notion that the Soviets want only to be equal. "To them a big-SALT II Critic Paul Nitzeger advantage is a bigger advantage," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The White-Haired Hawk | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...concubine became Mariannina, No. 2 her daughter Giuseppa, No. 3 Fortunata, No. 4 Margherita I, No. 5 Margherita II, No. 6 Lucia, No. 7 Mamma Carmela, No. 8 Angelika. Explained No. 2: "We all agreed. Each night, it was someone else's turn to sleep in the big bed with Giuseppe." Hers was Sunday. Scheduling was left to No. 1, who juggled Giuseppe's nocturnal appointments around illnesses and other exigencies. "There was no jealousy at all," said No. 2, ignoring the fact that Wife Concetta had no number, let alone night, to call her own. Indeed, Concetta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Love Story | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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