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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mozambique, Angola and elsewhere, they are not yet a viable power in Africa. Somalia, once Moscow's most compliant ally on the continent, is gradually rejecting Russia's influence; as the U.S. did in Viet Nam the Kremlin is learning that superpowers cannot always control or contain their client states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Russian Revolution Turns 60 | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...congressional wrangling. (A 25% personal income tax credit on the first $800 outlay spent for insulation would be granted.) Another stimulus to insulation demand is the yearlong boom in housing (TIME cover, Sept. 12), which depletes supplies rapidly. Says an O-C spokesman: "We have warehouses that normally contain a six-day supply. They are down to a one-day supply now. The stuff is going directly out the door from manufacturer to buyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Running Out of Insulation | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...crimes the prisoners did commit--the "war stories," as they're called--are supposed to be played down when they talk to the kids. There are, however, few conversations that don't contain personal details. "I'm just trying to understand them for what they are--namely grown men trapped in boys' bodies," Jerry Funderberg says. "They get away with it 99 per cent of the time and think they're slick. I was the same and I can tell them about me," he adds, and proceeds to do so--complete with descriptions of armed robberies and an imaginary slash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reaching Out From Walpole | 11/9/1977 | See Source »

Vitamin and mineral supplements must be taken with the liquid protein, which does not contain them, Blackburn said. The protein is safe, but exclusive consumption of the liquid for long periods of time may result in serious mineral deficiencies, Blackburn said...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Scientist Study Harmful Effects Of Protein Diet | 11/4/1977 | See Source »

Whether or not the Dracula boom is a solid vote for primordial superstition, it is certainly a solid boost for fun and may even contain essential elements of theatricality that have been too long neglected. When, for instance, has a playgoer been dazzled and dominated by a set rather than merely giving it the perfunctory opening-curtain applause? Edward Corey's set for Dracula at Manhattan's Martin Beck Theater is an eye-blinker. Broody, vaulting, magisterial, colored in shades of bleakest gray, it is a psychic tomb out of Edgar Allan Poe's haunted imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Kinky Count | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

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