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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most sweeping land conservation legislation in U.S. history, the bill would preserve an area slightly larger than California. It would also protect the great caribou herds in the Arctic Wildlife Range, the spawning beds of the Pacific salmon in the Misty Fjords along the state's southeast coast, the nesting grounds of the dwindling numbers of American bald eagles on Admiralty Island and the habitat of the whistling swan in the southwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Backlash Against Big Oil | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

Spradley awoke the next day with a bullet in his back in a small hospital in Riohacha, Colombia. He explained to authorities that he and McLemore had been flying down to Venezuela to pick up oil-drilling bits. But they had had engine trouble near the Colombian coast and were forced to land on a makeshift runway. Then, claimed Spradley, he was set upon by Indians wearing loincloths. They shot him, robbed him and left him by the plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: High Adventure In Colombia | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

Silverman is already showing the strain. He has been working and living at a furious pace, and tales of his temper tantrums are common on both coasts. Says a sympathetic West Coast television consultant: "He's like the guy in the porno movie who has to deliver all the time. That's damn near impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Struggling to Leave the Cellar | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...that anyone doubts Pfeiffer's ability to hold her own in the rough-and-tumble of network politics. She is not just attractive and intelligent. Thomas J. Watson Jr., her boss and mentor at IBM, calls her "brilliant and practical." A West Coast producer, less admiringly, terms her "conservative, moralistic, businesslike and hard." A liberal arts major at the University of Maryland, the Washington, D.C.-born Pfeiffer joined IBM soon after leaving the convent at the age of 23. In her two decades there, she rose from a trainee job to a vice presidency, with a reputation for quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: NBC's Mrs. Clean | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...Harvard 6:19.0; Northeastern 6:22.0; Orange Coast College 6:25.5; California 6:27.3; Washington 6:28.6; Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN'S HEAVYWEIGHT CREW RESULTS | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

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