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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trying some long-distance lobbying, 300 American nuns attending a convention in Pittsburgh of the National Assembly of Women Religious issued an open letter beseeching the all-male College of Cardinals to incorporate into the election "the voices of those whom present church structures exclude from participation." Minnesota's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Rome, a Week off Suspense | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

Few ailments in the history of epidemic diseases have been more baffling than the one that struck more than 200 people during an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976. Since then, disease detectives have isolated the bacterium-like organism that causes Legionnaires' disease. But if this dangerous form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tracking the Philly Killer | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

To West Bankers, who have sent complaints to the U.N. and to President Carter, the Al-Bireh case is the latest evidence that Israel is pursuing a policy of creeping annexation of the West Bank. Despite protests from the U.S. and elsewhere that Israeli policy contravenes the Geneva convention forbidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Two Standards of Justice | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

The idea of peddling legal services over the tube between deodorant and beer ads is enough to make many lawyers wince. Advertising was banned by bar associations as "unprofessional" until last year, when the Supreme Court struck down that prohibition as unconstitutional. The American Bar Association immediately went along as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Selling Suits | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

The debate at the A.B.A. Convention, however, was heated. Quoting from Thomas Jefferson's diary reference to "soliciting pettifoggers," Joe Stamper of Antlers, Okla., urged his fellow lawyers not to "equate legal services with soap and breakfast foods." But Roger Brosnahan, chairman of the A.B.A.'s Commission on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Selling Suits | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

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