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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Absurdist Playwright Eugène Ionesco is known for his use of logic taken to farcical extremes. But even without 20-20 apocalyptic vision, it is possible to imagine the world ending in an enormous eruption. Of all the demonstrations of nature's awesome power, few are as dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Case of Earthly Indigestion | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

The world's consummate amateur, George Plimpton, has called signals for the Detroit Lions, played tennis with Pancho Gonzales, boxed with Archie Moore and pitched to Willie Mays-all in the name of journalistic curiosity and publishable profit. "Ernest Hemingway once said that my daydreams were the dark side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 29, 1977 | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

Foresters have used enormous D9 Caterpillar tractors to help dig a 60-mile fire line around 40% of the blaze. Hoping to squeeze off some of the rest, Al West, an official of the Los Padres National Forest, ordered the construction of an eightmile, 30-to 40-ft.-wide road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Forest Inferno In the West | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

In the 1930s and '40s, the sands of northeast Africa were a cockpit of conflict between rival European colonial powers, chiefly Britain and Italy. Today, in both Eritrea and Ogaden, the central issue is the integrity of national boundaries, v. self-determination by individual provinces or tribal groups. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Shifting Sands on the Horn | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

The new sections are not all that's new at the New York Times these days. Under Sulzberger the Times has redesigned its pages, reshuffled its enormous staff,

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kingdom And the Cabbage | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

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