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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowd responded loudly with each near miss, eager to see its favorite dispose of the foil champion and leave a suggestion, at least, that he, in fact, should have occupied the top spot. But just as Vastola prepared for a low attack, McNamara came in with his point high and jabbed the Crimson captain in the chest. The crowd was disappointed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disappointment | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...teaching, at its very best, after all, than the interplay of people--the older ones who have the knowledge, the compassion, and the standards, and the younger ones who need all three? The current Expos director seems to disdain, even to fear, caring. Yet it is probably, in fact, for most of those freshmen who pass through his computer, the most valuable gift their teachers can give them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Fiction | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...interesting thing about TIME's article "Cult Wars on Capitol Hill" [Feb. 19] was not the hearing on cults by Senator Dole, but the fact that Cynthia Slaughter reconverted to the Moonies. If a person is deprogrammed from a cult, is there anything that the Christian community can offer? Apparently Slaughter didn't think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 12, 1979 | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Under all the rhetorical window dressing, however, there is a simple though painful message which says the cure for our sick public broadcasting system is more money--lots of money. In fact, the commission recommends an annual budget (by 1985) of $1.2 billion. Of this total pool, the federal government would provide $590 million, a recommended increase of over 300 per cent from 1978 funding levels. To supplement this, the commission proposes a system in which Congress would provide two dollars for every three dollars a local station gathered...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: A Little Too Scalpel Happy | 3/9/1979 | See Source »

...same time, when the South Africans do play a constructive role as they have at various times with regard to Namibia, I think we can't fail to give some recognition to that fact," he said, adding "that doesn't mean that they are relieved of any expectation on our part that they have to improve their internal situation...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: U.S. Official Assesses African Problems | 3/8/1979 | See Source »

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