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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sunday, in the latest installment of bickering over debate schedules and locations, Bush proposed an alternative series of presidential debates, refusing to consider more than one of the traditional meetings sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates in favor of, as he puts it, "formats that are more free-flowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Knew Presidential Debates Could Be So Much Fun? | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Iranian reformers have long sought to abolish the garment, which they consider a symbol of women's subordinate status. But even after the Shah's father, Reza Shah, outlawed the chador in the 1930s, rural women continued to wear them. After his abdication from the Peacock Throne in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Back to the Chador | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

A year ago, that reply would have seemed a fearful sin against the spirit of liberal economic doctrine-to say nothing of the spirit in which Jimmy Carter campaigned for the White House. But in the past twelve months, economic and political thought has gone through a wrenching change. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 1979 Outlook: Recession | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

Geraldine Waterbury of Gridley, Calif., turned to farming after raising a family and has just produced the largest crop yield of kiwi fruit in the state's history-15 tons per acre. She markets them at $2 per lb. to the Japanese, who consider the fuzzy fruit a rare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Offbeat Exports | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

"Jean Paul Belmondo doesn't consider himself a sex symbol." This intelligence comes from Raquel Welch, presumably an expert on the subject; she once acted with the French star in L 'Animal. Nevertheless, Belmondo's charm leaves millions of Frenchwomen à bout de souffle. In Flic ou...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 18, 1978 | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

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