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Dates: during 1970-1979
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To Watergate Investigative Reporter Bob Woodward, that made the nation's highest tribunal a "sitting target." Together with Washington Post Reporter Scott Armstrong, Woodward set out to do for Chief Justice Warren Burger's Supreme Court what he and Carl Bernstein had done for Richard Nixon's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Keyholing the Supreme Court | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Excommunications do occur in many Mormon congregations, usually involving sexual misconduct or apostasy-and no publicity. The Mormons gave up polygamy in 1890, but though the church, for example, favors equal pay for equal work, it strongly opposes the ERA, fearing a threat to morality and family life. The church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Savage Misogyny | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

The search that produced such startling "results began routinely enough when investigators of the New Mexico Organized Crime Strike Force, a special state investigative unit, started looking into underworld activities. The allegations that developed were both dismaying and frightening. They involved a college basketball scandal, which was bad enough, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Trouble | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Bent does not begin in the death camp, but on a hung-over morning after a dissolute evening of booze, cocaine and sadomasochistic pastimes. The apartment of Max and his dancer-lover Rudy (David Marshall Grant) is broken in on by Storm Troopers. The two flee but are subsequently captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Walpurgisnacht | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Last week, playing a concert date in Cincinnati during the first week of an 18-day blitz of the East and Midwest, The Who found itself performing after a crowd stampede that killed eleven people. The tragedy took place outside Riverfront Coliseum as thousands of kids holding unreserved seats charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Outer Limits | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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