Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your story "Is There Life on Mars -or Beyond?" [Dec. 13], your writer commented that possibly the civilization that received our message would not bother to reply, and you quoted Astronomer Carl Sagan as saying that they might find men as inferior as men find ants...
...being that time of the year again, I thought it extremely appropriate for TIME to expose Christmas greeting cards for exactly what they are worth [Dec. 6]. I have sent these meaningless cards for years and only very recently realized the alternatives. To my favorite charities, I will henceforth donate a sum equal to what my cards would have cost this year. Scrooge would not have been so bad after all, if only he had given his money away to those less fortunate than himself. I now know how he would have felt had he done...
...Bandit Who Went Out into the Cold" [Dec. 6] does journalism an injustice by creating an antihero. "D.B. Cooper," the parachuting skyjacker, prints out as a courageous, daring individual. Let us pray that in the next instance God is the copilot and no lives are lost, and let us treat the recent case for what it was: a serious crime. As a commercial airline pilot, I feel my chances of being hijacked are enhanced by such reporting...
...Ohio delegation, fifth largest at the convention. On the other hand, if he chooses the increasingly unfashionable favorite-son road, he would diminish his personal reputation as a reformer, contravene the spirit of the broadening changes in delegate-selection rules formulated by the Democratic Party (TIME, Dec. 6) and risk attack for political bossism...
CHRISTMAS in the Holy Land is an occasion that strains piety. For one thing, it is not one festival but three -Dec. 25 for Roman Catholics and Protestants, Jan. 7 for the Orthodox churches and Jan. 19 for Armenian Christians. More disconcerting, the details for the rites on these separate feast days that celebrate the birth of Jesus are spelled out in a 75-page, three-language manual whose rules are enforced by Israeli military authorities. That is one of the more delicate tasks undertaken by the new rulers of old Jerusalem, who have essayed the rule making only because...