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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...computer information rather than, say, 128, which would have been far more difficult to decipher. In both cases, NSA appears to have acted out of the same motive: sensitive to its intelligence responsibilities, it does not want either foreign governments or private groups to learn codes that it cannot break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: An Uncrackable Code? | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...staying even with the growth of the paychecks-output per hour worked has risen about 2% on average since 1970 -companies have had to cover their costs by raising prices. With inflation mounting at an alarming rate of 11.4% in April, it has become more difficult than ever to break the cycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bad News from Big Labor | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

Fifteen days later, Levitt reappeared to tell a totally different story. He said that during all that time he had been imprisoned against his will at three different locations. His mysterious captors not only wanted to break up his marriage, he said, but to talk him out of his new-found religion. He had been the victim of a bizarre and forceful "deprogramming" technique, he claimed. Levitt was no convert to a weird new cult, however, but a Jew who had lately converted to Christianity and wanted to marry a Gentile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Missing Bridegroom | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

With so much going for it, it is hard to figure out why the Cambridge Acting Company chose such a turkey for its grand opener. The company clearly has the ability to do better, and if the actors want to stay in their slightly odd home, continuing to break the tradition of boys-will-be-girls fun, they'd better come up with something more inspiring next time out. The subject may, indeed, have been roses, but the product was boring...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: The Subject Was Trite | 6/30/1978 | See Source »

...Star had been without an editor since last November, when able James G. Bellows, 55, went to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. Bellows had begun an energetic program of editorial rebuilding, but was convinced that Allbritton's austerity moves, which had brought the paper back to near the break-even point, were blocking his efforts. Indeed, the work of both men had greatly strengthened the Star, but, says a Star staffer, "we've been rudderless since Bellows left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: New Direction for the Star | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

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