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Shortly before President Ford's nomination in Kansas City last week, his Democratic rival Jimmy Carter met with advisers in Plains, Ga., to discuss what U.S. energy policy should be. After four hours of talks, Carter emerged to report a consensus: the nation still lacks a "comprehensive, long-range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENERGY: Back on a Dangerous Binge | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

Only a dozen homosexuals showed up for a scheduled mass love-in at a park in downtown Manhattan. There was not a policeman in sight to give a care. The once notorious Paul Krassner, a founder of the Youth International Party, sadly watched a crowd of 250 of his Yippies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Happy Garden Party | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

Another 63 propelled him to second in the 1972 Bob Hope Desert Classic and in 1970 he carded a 61 in the Phoenix. Miller has been rather dryly described as "a Mormon of abstemious habits who strides freely along the fairways with an air of dedicated, almost detached, purpose." But...

Author: By Robert I. W. sidorsky, | Title: British Open: Old Tom to Young John | 7/16/1976 | See Source »

its methods encouraged labor historians to spin a cocoon around American workers, isolating them from their own particular subcultures and from the larger national culture. An increasingly narrow "economic" analysis caused the study of American working-class history to grow more constricted and become more detached from larger developments in...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: New History of an Old People | 7/6/1976 | See Source »

If further studies of the second Chryse area satisfy scientists that it is safe for landing, controllers will feed the trajectory of the automated descent into the lander's computers and give the craft a final checkout. Then, on instructions from the scientists, the lander, encased in a protective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mars: The Search Begins | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

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