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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other lesser observers have made blatant comparisons. In 1968 The New Republic editorially linked the assassinations of Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus, two reforming fraternal politicians of Rome who lived more than a century before Christ, with the murders of John and Robert Kennedy. At a background briefing for press executives a year before Watergate, Richard Nixon spoke of the "great civilizations of the past, subject to the decadence that eventually destroys the civilization." Nixon went on to speculate that "the U.S. is now reaching that period." Although he agrees with Nixon on hardly any other subject, Novelist Gore Vidal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: The Score: Rome 1,500, U.S. 200 | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...scandal of the century." Bishop James Rausch, general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference, called on the U.S. to send food abroad now, to be followed by technical aid. Each person's right to eat, he said, is a matter of elemental justice. "If we fail, the hungering Christ stands in judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Catholic Olympics | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

...block the legal offensive being prepared by Hughes' former aide Noah Dietrich, with whom Hughes split in 1956. Dietrich was named executor of the Hughes estate in the so-called Mormon will that appeared in the Salt Lake City headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last April, and he has vowed to prove the validity of the will in court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Hanging Together | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

Students of the method tend to talk about it like converts to Christ. "It changed my life," says Junior Blanche Jones. "I came here to study chemistry. Now I'm thinking about teaching Spanish." Explains Junior Annie McLane: "The whole thing is, go ahead, make mistakes, but at least you're speaking. It builds your confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dynamiting Language | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

Fourteen centuries before Christ, the mystical pharaoh Akhenaten tried to sweep away the ancient pantheon of gods worshiped in Egypt. To replace the gods, he devised a kind of monotheism. Since monotheism is the modern preference, Akhenaten is now considered to have been one of civilization's heroes. But at the time his religion was very bad politics. Akhenaten failed; the ancient gods won: The surprise is not that Allen Drury, the Advise and Consent man, has written a book about Akhenaten-a pyramid could be made of books about him and his queen Nefertiti-but that his viewpoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Son of the Sun | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

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