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What gives socialist rhetoric much of its current appeal is the economic battering the world's economy has taken in the 1970s. Against the backdrop of seemingly incurable inflation, unemployment, industrial stagnation and volatile currencies, a clarion for an economic restructuring sounds attractive. Socialist states have not solved?only hidden or ameliorated?these problems. Ironically, at the very moment of its spectacular advances, socialism faces profound new crises of its own. At the same time socialism has become a word appropriated by so many different champions and causes that it threatens to become meaningless, and a new effort is needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Socialism: Trials and Errors | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Saturday night the six Harvard swimmers put on a thrilling performance that carried them from sixth to fourth place, just edging out East Stroudsberg State College, 179-175, in the final 400-yd. freestyle relay. Clarion State won the meet with 297 points, followed by Manhattanville (212) and host Brenau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Swim to Fourth at Division II Nationals | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Despite Kelly's blistering first leg, which sets a new national record for 200 yards, the Crimson finished second behind a new national record performance by Clarion State College, whose relay finished...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Swimmers Take Seventh Place | 3/10/1978 | See Source »

After the first day, Harvard trailed the meet-leading Pennsylvanians of Clarion by 78 points. Manhattanville kicked into second place with 81 points, 50 behind the leaders. The four teams between Manhattanville and Harvard were all bunched closely...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Swimmers Take Seventh Place | 3/10/1978 | See Source »

...sure, the address contained no Clarion call for dramatic action. The President had long ago scooped his own news by disclosing his major legislative plans for the coming year. Nor were there any eloquent phrases; that is simply not his style. Conservatives could grumble about his revived talk of creating "voluntary" restraints on wages and prices. Liberals could complain that many of his populist campaign calls for aiding the poor and rebuilding the cities had apparently vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Moving Down a Middle Road | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

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