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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bully pulpit of the presidency to persuade people as anyone since Teddy Roosevelt and his distant cousin Franklin. Carter seems almost to relish the coming combat. As he said last week, he intends to "convince the American people of the truth, using whatever means that I have at my command." Added Carter: "I believe that when they see the truth, they will cooperate in trying to cut down the waste of energy." This may be a tall order. But old hands in Washington, mindful of Carter's rapid rise from obscurity, are by no means ready to count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Carter's First Big Test | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...card advising him in Russian of his right to remain silent and to legal counsel. Ten hours later, after the Coast Guard's request to seize the trawler had been approved by President Jimmy Carter, the boarding party informed Gupalov that his ship was now under U.S. command. As the Stars and Stripes were run up its mast, the trawler started toward Boston harbor. Two days later the cutter Reliance brought in the Snechkus and its cargo of allegedly illegal herring. At week's end the Shevchenko was still tied up in Boston, while the Snechkus was heading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: A little Stink About a Lot of Fish | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

Nelson arrived in Spain in February 1937 and fought for more than a year until the International Brigades were sent home by the republicans in 1938. In Spain, he served as the brigade's second-in-command, the political commissar. But only a small part of his career as a Marxist actively seeking change was spent in Spain. Born in Yugoslavia in 1904, Nelson emigrated to the U.S. and became a radical worker in the 1920s, soon joining the Communist Party and becoming embroiled in the battles of the American left. As a party member, Nelson agitated for unions, civil...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: Courage When It Counted | 4/22/1977 | See Source »

...Crimson laxwomen took command early, scoring five goals in the first half to Wellesley's lone tally. The outmanned Wellesley squad never recovered...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: 'Cliffe Lax Trounces Wellesley Taking Fourth Straight Contest | 4/19/1977 | See Source »

...HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM to HACK'S BAR to ARTHRITISto STOP THE B-1 BOMBER).But since I only have 70 lines, I can't tell you all those stories. Instead, I'll have to concentrate on two runners: a Turk named Veli Bally (or Eeli Bally, depending on your command of Turkish) and a Winthrop House sophomore by the name of Bill Berkeley...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Two Marathon Stories | 4/19/1977 | See Source »

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