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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flexible and firmer. He can knock back a couple of bourbons at night with a man he likes. Ruefully he has admitted to himself that Georgetown gossip can affect his leadership. He is developing personal intuition about individual congressional leaders like Danny Rostenkowski, whose virtuosity is that he can count votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Still Searching for a Formula | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...after he wrote them, one was taken over by Rossini and the other by Mozart, and the operas effectively put a smokescreen over the originals. Cutting and combining the two plays gives the whole show a fascinating irony. The first play was lighter-hearted, and ended happily with the Count marrying the girl, Rosina. But in the second play, the situation changes--the Count, the hero of the first part, is trying to make off with his servant Figaro's intended bride. In the first play the servant had an alliance with the master; here he plots against his master...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: All the World's A Stage: Giles Havergal Comes to the Loeb | 4/28/1978 | See Source »

Like a high fastball on a 0-2 count, this was a good one to waste. Holy Cross is the Crimson's only opponent that is neither a member of the Greater Boston League or Eastern League, thus a loss to the Crusaders is virtually no different than a win over Wisconsin-Oshkosh, as far as the batsmen's playoff aspirations are concerned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crusaders Cross Up Batsmen With 8-1 Victory | 4/25/1978 | See Source »

...that political effort paid off for Gregory in numerous small attentions. Gregory drew Vice President Fritz Mondale to a $500-a-plate fund raiser in Pensacola in September. Gregory boasts of hobnobbing with the Carters on ten occasions since the President's Inauguration, a count partly substantiated by records in Washington. He twice attended soirees at the White House: one in March 1977 to honor British Prime Minister James Callaghan, and another in September to mark Carter's signing the Panama Canal treaties. Last June 23 he flew from Washington to a fund raiser in New York aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Unwanted Donor | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...universities will one day be compromised by the unrestrained growth of the influence of Government," they warned. What will follow their manifesto remains uncertain, but educators are in a fighting mood. "We're going to have to be tough-minded," says Hopkins' Muller. "We can't count on the Government to be benevolent. We have to be assertive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Federal Aid: Too Many Strings? | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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