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...York, or Boston or Los Angeles, that's fine. Those cities are big enough to encompass a wealthy population of prospective fans. But John Y. Brown had to abandon Lousiville, the city he said he really wanted to move to, because the wealthy market to support the team just wasn't there...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The Boston-San Diego-Buffalo Shuffle | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

Surely that helps to explain Carter's often contradictory attitudes, partly conservative, partly New Deal, partly managerial, partly populist. The fact that his own personality may well encompass these contradictions only reinforces the point. The narrowness of his victory was due not only to his shortcomings as a campaigner and his newness on the scene but to the basic confusion in the country about where it wanted to head. It is no accident that Jerry Brown, another "outsider," did so well in his truncated primary campaign. His appeal lay partly in the fact that, like Carter, he presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Are We Destroying Jimmy Carter? | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...added the school will also encompass a large new veterinary facility scheduled for completion in 1981 in Grafton. The 600-acre site, formerly the grounds of Grafton State Hospital, was donated by the state of Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Veterinary School At Tufts Will Open In the Fall of 1979 | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...Administration's basic problem, the critics charge, is that its rhetoric does not seem to encompass the realities of African politics. White South Africans, particularly, feel that U.S. moral judgments are hypercritical and based on a double standard-an argument that helped Vorster win a huge majority in last fall's national elections. A case in point: Carter in Lagos criticized injustice in South Africa but made no mention of the fact that Nigeria is a tough military dictatorship; criminals are regularly executed every Saturday on the Lagos beach. As the Afrikaner newspaper Beeld put it: "Morality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: U.S. Policy Under Attack | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...designs range from what Zakas calls "Big Stuff' to "Small Stuff' and encompass just about every kind of furnishing. One project, designed under Zakas' supervision by Parsons Student Stephanie Dieterich, is titled "the Knockdownable Sensuous Topograph"; a cross between a playpen and a bed, it is easily disassembled and can be made for about $40. A less felicitously named objet, a 4 ft. 10 in.-long coffee table designed by Student Greg Peterson, is called "Plumber's Dream"; a bronzed glass top mounted on plastic piping and sundry elbows and joints, it has a kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Almost Instant Furniture | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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