Word: feb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death of Freddie Prinze [Feb. 7] has left me greatly saddened. It seems to me that the real tragedy is not the loss of a talented TV star but that of a sensitive young man who felt he had no place in this world...
TIME'S Thomas Griffith in his "Newswatch" [Feb. 7] must be challenged on his assertion that "by common consent, the two best newspapers in America are the New York Times and the Washington Post...
Seeing pictures of abused women, whether advertisements or photo layouts [Feb. 7], excites one overwhelming emotion in me-intense, frustrated anger. I am seized by the urge to abuse someone in return, preferably the people who create such monstrosities and rationalize them in the name...
...powerful influence might have been the episode that occurred two weeks ago in Indianapolis. There, a 44-year-old auto salesman named Anthony Kiritsis wired the muzzle of a 12-gauge shotgun to the neck of a mortgage executive and held him hostage for 63 terror-filled hours (TIME, Feb. 21). When Indianapolis TV stations acceded to his demand that he be put on the air, Kiritsis crowed: "I'm a goddam national hero." He was scarcely that-and Indianapolis authorities quickly made him a goat by reneging on their promise of immunity and slapping him in jail...
...aloft, will fire charges to release itself from the three pylons that hold it to the 747. The orbiter will then glide to earth to test a landing on its own. If all goes well, the Enterprise will be rocketed into space from Kennedy Space Center in 1979 (TIME, Feb. 14). It will land at Edwards, then be shuttled back to Florida atop the 747 for more launchings. Eventually the Enterprise and its successive sister ships should be able to wing their own way back to runways near their launching pads...