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...fascinated a world that for the most part believed that no woman in her seventies could effectively run the government of a major nation. But through her long and distinguished career, Meir proved the world wrong. When she died last week at the age of 80, still another courageous facet of her personality came to light: she had been receiving secret radiation therapy for lymphoma for the last 13 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golda Meir 1898-1978 | 12/12/1978 | See Source »

...PARTICULARLY interesting facet of the Jonestown affair is that it involved many of the vague, somehow threatening phenomena and mindsets that characterize fringe groups in America today. The very embodiment of this, of course, was the Rev. Jim Jones, a peculiarly American product. So many details of his bizarre life have emerged in the past week that most people are probably tired of him already, but for others the fascination, albeit morbid, remains. Here was a man who managed to combine and warp good impulses by way of a twisted psyche...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: A World Gone Berserk | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

...newly graduated engineer with a bachelor's degree can expect a starting salary of $16,000, plus sign-up bonus. Engineers with ten years or more experience in virtually any facet of electronics can fetch $50,000. Additional perks often include payments for the selling costs on the recruit's old home and closing costs on the new home, free lodging while house hunting, conferences with tax specialists (in hopes of setting up tax shelters) and membership in a country club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Recruiting in Silicon Valley | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...open letter to Buffalo" that Brown released to the Buffalo Courier-Express July 8, Brown hit the woeful facet of this whole trade. In his letter, he wrote...

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

...Gibson's work gives her more contact with students than with her fellow workers, and she has few complaints about this facet of the job. Sometimes undergraduates ask Epps or Gibson to serve as a go-between in protesting some aspect of a House policy that the student feels he or she can't attack alone. Sometimes they need financial help, or advice on a personal matter. Occasionally, Epps has summoned the student on a disciplinary matter. Epps is frequently the liaison between Harvard and Cambridge on legal issues affecting a student, whether it be a parking ticket scofflaw...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Two Ways of Working At Harvard | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

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