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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although delegates to the student Constitutional Convention failed to reach a quorum last night at their first meeting of 1978, several members expressed optimism that a growing consensus on major questions would aid the creation of a new student government...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Delegates Near Consensus On Key Convention Issues | 1/5/1978 | See Source »

...only a rhetorical flourish. Despite numerous secret contacts over the years, it had been uniform Arab policy not to deal publicly with Israeli leaders. During the time of the British mandate in Palestine, Arab leaders would never sit at the negotiating table with their Zionist counterparts. After the creation of Israel in 1948, the boycott was even more thorough. At the Arab-Israeli Lausanne conference of 1949, the two sides stayed in separate hotels, never saw one another, and communicated only through couriers. When Lebanon's Charles Malik was president of the U.N. General Assembly, he once strayed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Anwar Sadat: Architect of a New Mideast | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...with me all my life) I was able to transcend the confines of time and place. Spatially, I did not live in a four-walled cell but in the entire universe. Time ceased to exist once my heart was taken over by the love of the Lord of all Creation: I came to feel very close to him wherever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Reflections from Cell 54 | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

Rogers specializes in memorable headlines. Word of mouth recently enticed Vidal Sassoon, Inc., the Los Angeles-based hairstyling and hair-care products business, to offer Rogers a $4 million account if he could come up with a snappy head. Rogers' creation: "If you don't look good, we don't look good." Some of Rogers' other sparkling one-liners include "It's got to be a Maximilian" for Maximilian furs; "When your own initials are enough" for Bottega Veneta, the leather goods company; "You never had it so good for so little" (Gloria Vanderbilt $26 blouses); "There's a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Advertising: the Best One-Liners | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...does incredibly complex recreations of such historical battles as Waterloo, Agincourt, Gettysburg, and sells them at the rate of about $2 million worth a year. Avalon Hill Game Co., the other big manufacturer, markets such simulations as Starship Troopers, a science-fiction game, and the complex tank-warfare re-creation Tobruk. Dunnigan's firm also imagines wars that have not yet happened: the one between the Soviets and the Chinese, the Canadian civil war, the invasion of America. The Pentagon buys Dunnigan's games, he says (and presumably plays with his maps and dice and cardboard counters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Games People Play: 1977 | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

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