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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York, the files from Tehran were assembled by associate editors Marguerite Johnson, who wrote the cover story, and William Smith, who helped prepare the accompanying stories. The effort, as Talbott noted, showed "how TIME uses the close collaboration of its correspondents and editors to bring a major late-breaking news event into quick and sharp focus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 18, 1978 | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...took the trouble, Mrs. Haley explains, to learn CB language from a book. As a true contester, she made that extra effort, though, she freely admits, a knack at writing "picturesque speech," sharpened by a correspondence course at the All-American School of Writing in Philadelphia, helped a good deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: A Contest Winner's Road to Shoppertunity' | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) students, like undergraduates, will have a new sticker on their bursar's cards this year as part of a new athletic department effort to more easily and accurately identify people using the University's athletic facilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Stickers Will Identify Harvard Athletes | 9/14/1978 | See Source »

...winner-take-all" match between Connors and Ilie Nastase (in which Connors actually was guaranteed $500,000 and Nastase received $150,000). Far more serious are charges of players' defaulting and "tanking," or purposely losing matches. Occasionally, players who lose early in singles expend less than full effort on their doubles matches with the aim of squeezing in a few days of rest or practice on a faltering serve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Home for a Troubled Game | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...heart? Tell children that sin is only a fairy tale invented by their grandparents to make them behave? Print school textbooks that ignore God and deride authority? Then don't become amazed at what's happening. It's already an effort for those who believe in God to remain honest. Just imagine how it is if one no longer believes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Songs of a Poor Wren | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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