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...mission over there--"simply to annihilate"--also began to bother him. "We'd take an area and a few months later go back and take the same piece of land again." And it was hot, hotter than the other wars, and tougher. He had contracted malaria and suffered a concussion from a grenade. "I wanted to live," he says matter-of-factly...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: As Different as Night And Day | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

There were some good spots, of course. The basketball team beat league champ Penn, but don't bother looking up the hoop squad's record. It'll only make you cry. Or laugh--you see, it was a funny kind of year in sports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YEAR IN SPORTS Nothing to laugh about | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

...better. He is supposed to have been doing his best for the past 15 months. Anything better will be the end of us. He pushes bills at Congress like a used car salesman shoving the finance papers under your nose. Just sign please. Don't bother to read the fine print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1978 | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...were a fairly homogeneous group-all white and mostly white-collar-but they ranged in age from Frank Darling, 70, a retired stockbroker, to Kathy Davis, 22, a secretary, whose jury duty was interfering with her plans to get married. The pressure and constant monitoring by bailiffs began to bother them. Turner decided to let them go home at night, after ordering them to avoid newspapers and TV news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Ordeal off a Divided Jury | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

Brutus, whose son Anthony Brutus is a junior here, was labelled "colored" in South Africa, but he said, "We don't let those labels bother us; they are just another device to divide and rule." Suggestions that South Africa's blacks are so divided tribally that they could not rule their country are also misleading, he added, because over 50 per cent of the black population lives in cities, and the old tribal structures broke down many years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South African Poet Calls for Divestiture | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

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