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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Edward Ardizzone, 79, children's book illustrator and author who created the popular Little Tim storybook series; in London. Born in Haiphong, in what was then French Indochina, but reared in England, Ardizzone, whose style has been likened to Hogarth's and Rowlandson's, served as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 19, 1979 | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

The Khmer Rouge excesses were condemned almost everywhere except in China, which had long favored an independent Cambodia, one that would be outside North Viet Nam's sphere of influence. Peking propped up the Pol Pot regime with vast amounts of military and economic aid. The North Vietnamese, meanwhile, never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deathwatch: Cambodia | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Chrysler also played politics in its pursuit of aid. The company not only recruited Michigan's congressional delegation, led by Senator Don Riegle and Congressman Jim Blanchard, to press its case on Capitol Hill but also dispatched a team of high-powered lobbyists to work up House and Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Loss, Bigger Bailout | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Written as a novel in 1946, Beckett's Mercier and Camier is stillborn in its transition to drama at Joseph Papp's Green wich Village Public Theater. One can understand what impelled Adapter Neumann's strenuous and occasionally imaginative effort, since the book was, essentially, Waiting for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Triste Couple | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

The basic Apple II consists of a typewriter keyboard about the size of an attache case; it plugs into any TV set and flashes information on the screen. It can be programmed by anyone familiar with BASIC, the simplest computer language, to do income taxes, balance a checkbook, record recipes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shiny Apple | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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