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...mannered Cyrus Vance suddenly changes from a charming, relaxed dinner partner to a tough diplomat on the run. The new Secretary of State excuses himself from a White House gala honoring Mexican President José López Portillo, dashes into a waiting Ford sedan, strips off his black bow tie and-in the pre-midnight dark -speeds south to Andrews Air Force Base. Within minutes, he is airborne in a specially outfitted Boeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Time to Meet the Players | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...Bow Incident...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: TELEVISION | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...UNESCO is trying to raise $15 million to save the ruin (Greece has already pledged $5 million of the total). To launch the fund-raising drive, UNESCO's director-general, the Senegalese classicist and art historian Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, climbed the Acropolis and issued a warning. "After resisting the onslaughts of weather and human assailants for 2,400 years," he cried, "this magnificent monument, on which Ictinus and Phidias left the imprint of their genius, is threatened with destruction as a result of the damage which industrial civilization has increasingly inflicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Acropolis: Threat of Destruction | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

Public schools in Boston and most suburbs remained closed all week. But Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said that Harvard would not bow to cold, snow, rain or even sleet in completing its appointed Reading Period...

Author: By Davis B. Hilder, | Title: I'd Prefer Philadelphia | 1/14/1977 | See Source »

Tough-Minded. Incredibly, two men considered to head the investigation were Mark Lane, who has lived substantially for the past 13 years off writings and lectures attacking the Warren Commission, and Bernard Fensterwald Jr., who once represented James Earl Ray. Lane had the sense to bow out, but he recommended the man who was eventually appointed as the $39,600-a-year chief sleuth: Richard A. Sprague, 51, a tough-minded former district attorney from Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Sprague's Spraw | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

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