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Earthwatch, a nonprofit scientific research organization based in Belmont, Mass., will send 625 vacationers on expeditions that include a probe of 90-gun H.M.S. Coronation, which sank off Plymouth in 1697, and a dig for Bronze Age artifacts along the Esk River on the Scottish border. Virtually every European country offers at least two or three music festivals, and almost everywhere, every week, there are rumbustious folk festivals, with such attractions as jousting knights, wrestling Tyroleans, strawberry-eating contests, battling bargemen and tootling bands. A country-by-country summary of seasonal highlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Everywhere | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Void Symphony | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

James Abourezk, 43, one of 14 Lebanese-Americans in South Dakota, is a relaxed, informal politician who finds the U.S. Senate a bit too stuffy. Liberal Democrat Abourezk (pronounced Aber-esk) decided to study law at 32, went to Congress at 39 and, after a single term, captured his Senate seat in 1972. Besides being the Senate's most forceful spokesman for the Arab cause in the conflict over a Palestinian state, Abourezk, who was born on a Sioux reservation and knows more about the American Indian than any of his 99 colleagues, is chairman of the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

...guide runs from James Abourezk, (Ab-urr-esk), Democratic Senator from South Dakota, to John Zwach (rhymes with clock), Republican Rep resentative from Minnesota. In between are Schneebeli (Shnay-ble), Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, and Kluczynski (Kloo-chin-skee), Dem ocratic Representative from Illinois. Especially rich-sounding are the Gs in the House. Among them: Gaydos (Gay-duss), Pennsylvania Democrat; Giaimo (Gy-moe), Connecticut Democrat; Gubser (Goob-ser), Republican from California; and Gude (Goo-dee), Republican from Maryland. The only of fice that has remained impervious to the phonetic assault is, of course, the presidency itself. But Spiro Agnew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: What's in a Name?... | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Enters the 30s and the Depressions | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

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