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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hell" Harry, he did not turn his listeners on much. His style was reassuring but plodding and predictable. Sometimes defending his record, sometimes sounding almost as anti-Washington as Jimmy Carter, the President often seemed to say the right thing the wrong way. Earlier, at a shopping center in a Detroit suburb, the audience started to drift off as soon as he began talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: More Blood in the G.O.P.'s Donnybrook | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

...with the exception of John Kennedy, every President of this century since Taft was born or reared in a small community. Which leads one to wonder why, in our age of ultimate urbanization, we end up with men who never had firsthand experience living right down in the crowded center of Megalopolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Why Small-Town Boys Make Good | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

What the University plans to do with the plot remains unclear. It originally made the purchase to build a student center there, but the land is much too small for anything of that size. And it does, make a pleasant garden--many of the liberators' comments Sunday centered on the nice job the Fly Club has done on upkeep. When one frisbee player suggested a slight dip in the ground was dangerous, another responded, "But it's perfect for croquet...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Over the Top at the Fly | 5/21/1976 | See Source »

Other Peoples, Other Cultures, opening May 20 through June at the Carpenter Center...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Galleries | 5/20/1976 | See Source »

...ideologue with popular backing Moynihan is dangerous. As a serious theorist he is absurd: he denounces OPEC, as is de rigeur on the American center-right, for its raising of oil prices and he extolls the world free market. Yet there is no free market; monopolistic multinational corporations control international trade in manufacturing, charging inflated prices and thus adding to their profit margins. Third world producers of food and raw materials have heretofore engaged in competition with each other to their detriment, over-producing and lowering prices for their goods. In the 20 years between...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ideologue of the Reaction | 5/20/1976 | See Source »

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