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...Olympus is the home of the Norse gods. True or false?") and has her pupils-who include her own eight-year-old daughter-memorize poems and Latin vocabulary. "Who can say that the classics are too hard for eight-year-olds?" she argues. "Why spoon-feed them until they choke on an overdose of boredom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Westside Story | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...same theme was sounded, several decibels higher, by Clay Smothers, a black Texas state representative: "I have enough civil rights to choke a hungry goat. I ask for public rights, Mr. Carter. I ask for victory over perverts of this country. I want a right to segregate my family from these misfits and perverts." A film was shown of Anita Bryant endorsing the pro-family movement, and Roger Redford of Arkansas explained that he had been a homosexual for 26 years until he was finally saved. "The Lord Jesus Christ is the only one who can deliver you from homosexuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: What Next for US. Women | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...most dramatic-and in many ways disturbing-event of the week occurred on the floor of the Senate, as the leadership moved to choke off a filibuster that was delaying Carter's whole energy package. At issue was the emotional question of whether federal controls should be lifted from the price of newly discovered natural gas that is sold across state lines. The federally fixed price is $1.47 per 1,000 cu. ft. (or m.c.f.); gas that is produced and sold within a state's borders is free of such controls and generally goes for $2 per m.c.f...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Filibuster Ends, but Not The Gas War | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...hopes. This time, Wade, now 31, fought her way into the finals against Holland's solid Betty Stove, 32, who at 6 ft. 1 in., 160 lbs. is the strong -and slow-journeywoman of the circuit. In the first set of their face-off the Wade Wimbledon Choke appeared ready to repeat itself as the Englishwoman, playing tentatively, lost 4-6. But it was Stove who then fell apart, double-faulting repeatedly, while Wade settled down and carried the last sets 6-3, 6-1. It was a victory that brought Queen Elizabeth II-making her first visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wimbledon: Youth Will Be Served | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...Providence can choke it," said fitzgibbons. "They're thinking about the NCAAs and know they are in a position to make it. When you think that way, you can pipe...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Third in NCAA Trial | 5/6/1977 | See Source »

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