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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Announced a discouraged Sheila Greenwald, executive director of Eramerica, after the latest setbacks: "We're not planning new strategy, because in many cases the legislators that defeated ERA the last time are still there." The Justice Department is currently studying the rescinding votes by seven states, including the three voted last week, to determine if they are binding. Even if they are not, the best chance for ERA ratification now rests with election results in 1980. ERA proponents would have to elect enough supporters to change the antiamendment positions of at least three state legislatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: ERA Runs into a Roadblock | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...sang-froid was characteristic; he is known in diplomatic circles as a self-assured salesman of policy, cool under stress and adroit at coping with diplomatic delicacies. "I think he's got water for blood," says Eugene Lawson, a former State Department colleague who is now a director at Georgetown University's foreign service school. "He's a collected, shrewd guy who always seems to land on his feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Sullivan--Cool Salesman | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Although members pledged $20,000 last year, the foundation will not affect the justice system until it collects $100,000, Douglas H. Phelps, administrator for public service and career development at the Law School and EJF executive director, said yesterday. He added he expects the percentage of graduates joining EJF to rise in the future...

Author: By Steven D. Irwin, | Title: Law Graduates Pay for Public Counsel | 2/23/1979 | See Source »

...bring this show off, Masiell and director James Coco should probably have tried for a bigger stage, better songs, a little less autobiography, and tighter dialogue. But they're forgiven. For there's a rare, healthy sense of humanity here, some cutting irony, a sizable dose of humor, and much well-considered social commentary. And besides, the ghost was there, and that alone is enough. Masiell's clearly not up there with Marlene Dietrich or Maurice Chevalier, and no, we are not at The Palace but I, for one, have never been closer...

Author: By Jamie O. Aisenberg, | Title: The Ghost of Vaudeville | 2/23/1979 | See Source »

distory of Superconductivity and Superfluidity--Hendrick B. G. Casimir, director emeritus, Phillips Research Labs, Science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: February 22-28 | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

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