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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bull Session. At the three-day conference there was talk of other things besides welfare and money: the environment, urban programs, even a bit of 1972 politics. Indiana's Senator Birch Bayh, a presidential hopeful, dropped most of the Democratic Governors personal notes asking them to come by his office for a chat. Maine's Governor Kenneth Curtis, North Carolina's Robert Scott and Missouri's Warren Hearnes put together a cocktail party for Edmund Muskie. But even presidential politics could not keep the Governors from their preoccupation with finding a means to have the Federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNORS: Saying No to Nixon | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...basic hit-and-not-be-hit strategy, Ali may well be the most graceful big man in boxing history. Frazier, who will spot his rival 3¾ in. in height, a crucial 8½ in. in reach, and 10 or so lbs. in weight, is a swarming, wade-in, bull ish brawler who willingly takes a punch or ten for the chance to score with his bludgeoning left hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bull v. Butterfly: A Clash of Champions | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

While a secretary sprayed the room with a lemon-scented aerosol bomb, police and firemen ejected the intruders. Outside the palace, a Liège farmer, who felt that the ministers had not been sufficiently cowed, lamented: "My only regret is that we didn't bring along a bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Common Market: Cowing the Six | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

Another well received speech was Abzug's, which started the evening. She said Nixon was convinced that "You are all majoring in apathy." Someone in the crowd yelled, "bull-shit," and Abzug replied, "That's right. If I believed that, I wouldn't be here...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Enthusiastic Crowd Jams Teach-In | 2/23/1971 | See Source »

...into the arena to meet these young critics during a day-long visit on December 27 to the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago. Many times in his past, such confrontations have won Teller only unpopularity-even ostracism. But this time, the old bull...

Author: By Deborah Shapley, | Title: The Scientist as Doctor Strangelove | 2/19/1971 | See Source »

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