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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...replace" such student aid, says Admissions Director Stuart Michael. Worse, the Government might one day strip the college of tax-exempt status. If Wheaton were forced to change its admission policies, its defenders argue, it would no longer be Wheaton-whose motto since 1860 has been Eius Christo et Regno: For Christ and His Kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: All That and Billy Graham Too | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

...fact we should all know by now, but Burt Avedon's Ah, Men! goes into pedantic detail on the subject, using a few of his own thoughts but mostly those of a rather notable group, including Ashley Montagu, Helen Gurley Brown, Sterling Hayden, Gore Vidal, Michael Korda, George Plimpton, et al., in this dry, humorless tome. There are chapters on Growing Up, Work, Goals and Sex, and the quotes run from the noble (Plimpton: "I went to an English school in New York where we were taught that the good life was not simply a question of winning, but rather...

Author: By Zan Stewart, | Title: IN PRINT | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

Even the organist and the P.A. announcer got into the act, the former establishing a reputation as the best in the majors and the latter bouncing backup catcher John Bocabella's sonorous name off the tiny stadium's cheap steel seats ("Et maintenant, numero 12, Jahn...Boc...a..bellll...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Pennant Race Goes North of the Border | 9/16/1980 | See Source »

DIED. Paul Robert, 69, France's Noah Webster, compiler of the famous seven-volume Dictionnaire Alphabetique et Analogique de la Langue Francaise known familiarly as the Grand Robert, and its one-volume condensation, the Petit Robert; after a long illness; in Mougins, France. While still a law student, he realized the inadequacy of existing French dictionaries, especially in cross references to synonyms and analogues; in 1945 he gave up the law for lexicography. Official recognition from the Academic Francaise for his early work encouraged him to proceed from A to zymotique, and, with occasional detours into books on other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 25, 1980 | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...happen to come across it in the middle of the Pacific. When the ship finally emerges from the relativistic tunnel, the date is Dec. 6, 1941-Pearl Harbor eve. Once the captain (Kirk Douglas) and his mates on the bridge (Martin Sheen, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, et al.) get the mystery all sorted out, the Nimitz, in its full nuclear glory, finds itself in a position to intervene in history. Should it try to face down the entire Japanese armada steaming toward its rendezvous with infamy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Time Traveler | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

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