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...Chop down some of the Senate's most prominent Democrats? "Of course, we can do it," says Terry Dolan, 28, chairman of a third ultraconservative organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The New Right Takes Aim | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...confusing setto, Knight allegedly stung the cop with a barehand chop. Tossed into jail, Knight was released in time to see his team the gold against Puerto Rico, 113-94. His trial on an aggravated assault charge was put over until next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 23, 1979 | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...nation's bill for oil imports will grow from $42 billion in 1978 to some $65 billion in 1979-in effect, a direct levy of fully $747 per year on every American taxpayer. To keep consumer spending from going into a freefall, the Government may be forced to chop its own receipts instead. But doing so would widen the federal deficit and pump yet more inflation into the economy even as output is declining. Quite a bit of U.S. economic policy is being made as much in Riyadh and Tehran as in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What It Will Cost the U.S. | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...afraid of the big bad monkfish? Certainly not Julia Child, that indefatigable doyenne of the television kitchen, even though the monkfish, or Lophius americanus, is such an ugly American that fish stores ordinarily chop off its fanged foot-wide head before they display the fish in order not to frighten customers. Taping a cooking session for the new season, Child hauled the fish up by its tail, showed the camera its "skin that moves around" and praised its "marvelous teeth-top, bottom and middle." "It is firm, lean and gelatinous," she insisted, "and very good in bouillabaisse." When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 14, 1979 | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...came to the farm bouncy with optimism. I had lived in the country before. I knew how to ride a horse. I knew Herefords from Holsteins. I liked to climb trees. I could chop wood, remember to close gates, cook on open fires...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: Down Under | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

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