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...find to keep alcohol, and the masters, through creative enforcement of the ban on liquor, are coming as close to condoning the students as they can without defying the law. Ed King may be able to railroad the legislature; he has a long way to go before he can conquer Harvard...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Prohibition '79 | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

...loss to figure out how to guard 1,000 miles of power line running across the land of people who don't want it there. Although they have hired security guards, their snooping, largely centered on Villard, has turned up nothing so far. Their divide-and-conquer tactics have done little better...

Author: By Winona Laduke, | Title: The Battle for the West | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

...seminal British rockers conquer New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A New Triumph for The Who | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...Journalist Louis Pauwels says, "We do not wish to burn Bibles or churches, but their message is only part of the European tradition." Just as important, says Pauwels, are "the mores of the ancient pagan cultures and heroes like Prometheus and Faust, who show that man is made to conquer the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A New Right Raises Its Voice | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...been El Cordobés, the Cordovan, Spain's foremost matador with a record of more than 2,000 bulls and an unforgettable style of frog jumps and other moves that brought the bulls-and the people-to their knees? In 1972, with no more whirls to conquer, El Cordobés, a.k.a. Manuel Benítez Pérez, retired as a millionaire to a cattle and pig farm. But the quiet palled, and, after testing the ring and his reflexes in a benefit performance last year, El Cordobés decided to retire from retirement. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 6, 1979 | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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