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Both the major parties thus appeared to have been punished by disaffected supporters for an all-too-cozy parliamentary collaboration that had supported two successive minority Cabinets headed by Christian Democratic Premier Giulio Andreotti. The Socialist Party, the country's third largest, did not fare much better; it gained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Hammer and Sickle at Half-Mast | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

Bowersock's plan reflects the same faith in the supremacy of Faculty members as tutorial leaders that characterized past tutorial legislation. The earliest report on tutorials, in 1924, declared that professors were best suited in the teaching staff to lead individualized discussions. The report assumed that "every professor will wish...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The Latest of the Great Reforms | 6/5/1979 | See Source »

The plot condenses the turmoil of the 1960s, exploring dislocations between generations, races and cultures. Lev, a Russian dissident, joins his family in the U.S. after 20 years of imprisonment. He finds that his disaffected son Yuri is entangled through a girlfriend in a feud with a Muhammad Ali-like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Healing Spring | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Like many protest movements, the antinuclear battle began on the local level. Loosely knit coalitions of environmentalists, '60s rebels, disaffected youths, and newly politicized Middle Americans began organizing to fight power plants sprouting in their backyards. Three years ago, there was the Clamshell Alliance harassing the unfinished nuclear plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hell No, We Won't Glow | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

For engineers and chemists like Garvin, who have risen through the company's legendary "Texas pipeline"?from Exxon's sprawling refinery complexes of the Gulf Coast to senior management positions?the Oil Game is no longer very much fun. Hounded by the White House, harassed by consumer and environmental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Big Oil Game | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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