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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Snapping Turtle. In his 20th year as head of the combined AFL-CIO, Meany is a phenomenon. His mind is quick, his memory is sharp ("I haven't forgotten a thing in my life," he told the conference last week), and he is so self-assured that he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: Labor's Grand Old Godfather | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

Asked at Bal Harbour if he had confidence in Secretary of State Kissinger, Meany quickly replied: "Oh my God, no." Then he added: "I think his policy [the pursuit of detente] has got to lead us to an eventual disaster. His policy is a give-away policy. It's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: Labor's Grand Old Godfather | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

Endless Hunt. Grindinger had little time to make his final choice. Last Wednesday was D-day for signing a national letter of intent, the formal document with which high school seniors pledge themselves to one school. For Notre Dame and scores of other colleges, there is no more costly or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brian's Pitch | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

Any reduction in the availability of legal abortions resulting from the Edelin verdict will affect principally-in the words of the New York Times-"the poor, badly educated younger women for whom the prospect of giving birth is a particularly great personal disaster." Many of the women who do not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abortion: The Edelin Shock Wave | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

As usual, Peking was tight-lipped about details. At first it acknowledged only that a severe earthquake had occurred. But last week Western scientists learned from a Chinese news broadcast monitored by the CIA that authorities had "mobilized the masses" before the disaster, a move that was "based on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Earthshaking Forecast | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

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