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Word: chargees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because so much of this action will be dominated by the Senate, its dour and aloof majority leader, Robert Carlyle Byrd of West Virginia, 60, will become the most important power broker in Congress. The last session belonged to bluff Speaker Tip O'Neill, who worked closely with the inexperienced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bold and Balky Congress | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

For the most part, Byrd's colleagues welcome his nearly unerring sense of where the Senators collectively want to go. Even Republicans give him high marks, at least for technical skill. Says New York's Jacob Javits: "He moves heaven and earth to keep the Senate going. But Mike Mansfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bold and Balky Congress | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

It was this episode that finally prompted Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong to go all out in retaliation. No less a military leader than Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, hero against the French at Dienbienphu and scourge of the Americans during the Viet Nam War, took charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDOCHINA: When Communists Collide | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

The Trib has a fresh, modern look, and its newsroom is equipped with the latest in computer terminals, on which copy is fitted and transmitted to its New Jersey printing plant. The slim editorial staff of 77 includes two Pulitzer prizewinners, Managing Editor Fred Sparks and Art Critic Emily Genauer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Trib Redux | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

As a result, the project stirred controversy as hot and heavy as a tabas-coed gumbo. However, as silver-haired Mayor Moon Landrieu, one of the dome's founding fathers, points out, in terminable legal challenges and investigations failed to produce a single indictment or even a documented charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Superdome Named Desire | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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