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Wide Margin. In London, the debate had gone on day after day, sometimes until dawn broke over the misty Thames and the crowds were already queuing for seats in the galleries. If at times there seemed to be little eloquence in those torrents of words, it may have been because, as one M.P. observed, "this is not just a six-day debate but a peroration to a debate which has lasted 20 years." The real drama lay in the approaching vote. In the end, 69 opposition Labor members voted with the Conservative government, while 39 Tories switched the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Common Market: A Great Day for Europe | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

Yesterday's MIT bombing was exactly one year later than the pre-dawn explosion which damaged the library of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard. A Cambridge police spokesman said yesterday that some connections between the two bombings may exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Blasts Are Similar | 10/16/1971 | See Source »

...Johnny) Carson was beside herself. A doctor administered sedation, but Joanne still wandered up and down Sunset Boulevard searching for her three-pound, Yorkshire terrier. Enter Joanne's blind date, TV Executive Tom Tannenbaum, who was promptly pressed into service as a Muffin hunter. Some time around dawn they found the little dog alive and well. Joanne, describing the hound hunt to Columnist Joyce Haber, provided a provocative peek at her marriage to Carson. "Johnny gave Muffin to me as a Christmas present seven years ago," blurted Joanne. "That was his way of saying 'This is our baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 11, 1971 | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

...sends a team into any area where racial trouble is brewing. When Mafia Leader Joe Colombo was shot by a black in June, tension between blacks and Italian Americans mounted in some New York neighborhoods. Community-relations officers rushed to the scene and patrolled the streets from dusk till dawn along with police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Why Summer Was Mostly Cool | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

Physicist Seaborg is just back from Russia, where he headed a delegation of ten visiting U.S. scientists. The group, in checking out eleven key Soviet installations,*covered 6,000 miles -all in Premier Aleksei Kosygin's private TU-134 jet. The scientists often stayed up until dawn talking shop with their Soviet counterparts, with Seaborg, as he has throughout his reign as AEC chief, pushing hard for the pooling of information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sharing the Atom ... | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

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