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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second half, the Big Red torrent subsided somewhat, with Cornell outscoring the visitors just 21-6. The rout presented the Quakers with an unpleasant debut and probably an indicator of a very long season ahead...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Tigers, Elis Winners in Ivy Openers | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...almost any measure, White House Years is a big book. Thirty months in the writing, it runs 1,521 pages, close to three-quarters of a million words. Little, Brown, the Time Inc. subsidiary that owns North American rights to the book, plans a publication date of Oct. 23 and a first edition of 225,000 copies, an exceptionally large number. The price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...would never vote for Jerry Brown [Sept. 3], even if my only other choice were a Big Business candidate. I do not care to have Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden that close to our national security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Kennedy is expected to be nearly unbeatable in the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 26 and the Massachusetts primary on March 4, so Carter aides are concentrating their efforts on the next big test, the Florida primary on March 11. Says a top Carter aide: "If Kennedy beats us there-and it's a damn sight easier to beat us there than elsewhere in the South -he's got the big ring to grab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kennedy: Ready, Set... | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...more than a decade Schlesinger was at the center of the nation's drama, court philosopher and iconoclast, a man with big-fisted ideas of leadership oddly matched with a Swiss-watch mind. He is out of phase, decompressing (sort of) as the political pace quickens. He was fired by one President, sensed the time to depart another. A rare repository of current history, Schlesinger is taking long looks at the world on these autumn days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Warblers, Wrens and Hawks | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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