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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another familiar claim, Carter maintains he drastically cut the Georgia state bureaucracy. But facts again contradict those claims. By the time Carter left office, the number of state employees and state spending in Georgia had jumped 30 and 50 per cent respectively...

Author: By Anne D. Neal, | Title: A Ford, Not an Edsel | 10/30/1976 | See Source »

...representatives of the Law and Medical Schools' admissions committees denied Hoffman's claim that such information would be irrelevant in reaching a decision...

Author: By Judith Kogan, | Title: CUE Hears Plan to Curb Grade Hike | 10/29/1976 | See Source »

...Lady Vanishes. Sabotage Is Hitchcock's version of Conrad's The Secret Agent (not to be confused with Hitchcock's The Secret Agent, which in fact has nothing to do with the Conrad novel, as well as being a bomb to be avoided at all costs despite the claim that it is Hitchcock's favorite of his British films, oft-repeated in unscrupulous advertising.) Sabotage must also be distinguished from Saboteur, an American film Hitchcock did during the Second World War, which features a great duel-to-the-death atop the torch of the Statue of Liberty, prefiguring the brilliant...

Author: By Alyson Dewitt, | Title: FILM | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

Although Transkei's population is presently just over 1.7 million, the South African government has assigned over three million to the homeland. If the rest of the population should ever claim a right to Transkei residence, the result would be disastrous: in 1972, the Transkei was already so overcrowded that the then minister of roads and works for the area warned that his ministry might works for the area warned that his ministry might refuse to allow any more immigrants into the homeland, because the land could not support those who already lived there. Half the Transkei citizens, then, will...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Apartheid: Making a Sham of Freedom | 10/26/1976 | See Source »

...sole standard he normally applied as he scrambled for power and influence in the White House. He admits that fear of losing status at the heady heights pushed him easily into criminality. Even when he tells about taking his stand against the President, Dean makes no lofty claim that either personal virtue or an overriding sense of justice motivated his action. Only when he saw, far earlier than most, that the cover-up would not work, either for the President or for himself, did he finally turn against the men who had made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Expedient Truths | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

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