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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wisconsin campaign was a furious montage of political styles. With mod glasses and carefully darkened hair, 61-year-old Humphrey bounced through 19-hour days. "We can sleep next year," he told his workers. Everywhere, except among college students, he found deep affection, but the warmth did not always convert to votes. At times, his campaign savored of last hurrah. In Milwaukee, a woman wearing a McGovern button told H.H.H.: "We love you." "But you're voting for McGovern," replied Humphrey. Said the woman: "Yes, but we love Hubert Humphrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: A Message of Discontent from Wisconsin | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...winning--or persuading. Though films such as Hiroshima Mon Amour and Night and Fog have explicitly political backgrounds. Resnais denies that he has ever intentionally made a political film: "I just let things happen . . . . If the script is political, then all the better. But I have never tried to convert anyone...

Author: By Phil Patton and Sharon Shurts, S | Title: Alain Resnais: From Marienbad to the Bronx | 4/14/1972 | See Source »

...least one Orthodox group?the Lubavitch Hasidim?is dedicated to converting less observant Jews back to full observance, and the group usually goes about that task with patience, tact and good humor. One convert to Lubavitch Hasidism, Microbiologist Velvl Greene of Minneapolis, was won over simply by prayer. A young Lubavitch missionary, in the midst of a ten-minute interview with the busy Greene, suddenly looked out the window at the setting sun, realized that it was time for prayer, and, asking Greene's pardon, abruptly stopped the conversation. Putting on a gartel (a cord round the waist that symbolizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jews: Next Year in Which Jerusalem? | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...last of the great Roman Catholic earls, and their lands were turned over to English and Scottish colonizers of the Protestant faith. Much of Ireland's history since then has been a record of bloodshed and trouble. Some milestones: 1690. King James II of England, a Catholic convert, was defeated at the Battle of the Boyne by his Calvinist successor, William of Orange. In succeeding years, the Penal Laws further restricted the Catholics' right to education, administrative posts and land ownership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Ulster: A Long Chronicle of Violence | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

Schmidt said the University expects to convert the building into a dormitory to house up to 176 students. Details concerning who will reside there and exactly what sort of renovations will be made will be released when the transaction is completed

Author: By Susan F. Kinsley and Peter Shapiro, S | Title: Continental Price Set at $1.2 Million | 3/4/1972 | See Source »

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