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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must contrast the politics of the five B's-blacks, browns, budgets, busing and balance-with the five A's -attention, attendance, atmosphere, attitude and achievement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Quotations from a Spellbinder | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

Nowadays the national average for most adults is 7½ hours. About 15% sleep less than 6½ hours, and a somniferous 15% slumber on for more than ½ hours. In contrast, gorillas and cats sleep about 14 hours out of every 24, while elephants and short-tailed shrews get by on a positively neurotic two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Pillow Talk | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...sendorfer is seasoned outdoors for three or four years before being used, and each handcrafted mechanism takes over a year to complete. The keys are ivory, a nearly extinct luxury; the bushings - the tiny linings of the piano's moving parts- are still made of felt. (Steinway, by contrast, has switched to Teflon bushings, which require much less time to insert and glue, but can squeak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cartier of the Keyboards | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...contrast, the second anniversary observance last week was brief. There was no work stoppage to hobble Johannesburg homes and offices; blacks were too worried by rising unemployment to risk dismissal. Shops closed, but only for a few hours. There was no defiant stone tossing at police who had thrown up heavy roadblocks and who cruised the areas where observances were held. A police official had warned one leader of the community: "If one stone is thrown, I won't even waste my men's time in coming to pick you up. I will send word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Soweto: A Depressing Anniversary | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...serious woman athlete-even one who trains with weights-hardly faces the specter of turning into a Tarzan. The female body composition is only 23% muscle, in contrast to 40% for men. Dr. Jack Wilmore, president of the American College of Sports Medicine, has found that women, because they have low levels of the androgenic hormones that enlarge muscles, can increase their strength 50% to 75% with no increase in muscle bulk. Witness Virginia Wade, sleek and slender, who can serve a tennis ball at 92 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Weaker Sex? Hah! | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

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