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...crisis began when the Chicago Fire Fighters Union became locked in an angry, name-calling feud with strong-willed Mayor Jane Byrne. Richard Daley, her predecessor, had kept the firemen content by raising their pay without a contract until the average $22,300-a-year salary was among the highest paid to the nation's firemen. But Byrne resisted demands for a contract that would assign a six-man team to each fire truck (up from the current four or five men), cover supervisors, and include the right to strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Burning Threat | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...handle day-to-day chores; most-although not all-observers in Riyadh believe his authority has increased as he seeks to carry out reforms to quell potential unrest. The next princes in line, National Guard Commander Abdullah and Defense Minister Sultan, seem to have buried their long-running feud in the interests of family unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Change in a Feudal Land | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...went out with Charles Van Doren and the scandals of the '50s; there has not been a game that really tested one's knowledge since Art Fleming's Jeopardy!, a cult favorite, was canceled by NBC in 1975. Aside from two skill-testing parlor games, Family Feud and The $20,000 Pyramid, all the current shows celebrate the theater of cruelty and the entertainment values of Las Vegas. Masochistic contestants meet fourth-rate Hollywood celebrities in a neon-lit orgy of product plugola, group hysteria and psychological mayhem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Truth and Consequences | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin soared somewhere into the upper deck while simultaneously calling time out and began his night-long feud with the men in the striped shirts. So the downhill Harvard race continued...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Sluggish Hoopsters Sleepwalk In Sloppy 74-62 Loss to B.C. | 2/2/1980 | See Source »

...after Ruiz joins his Dominican friends on the road to sainthood, the Pope's visit may fortify the position of the anti-Marcos clerics whom many hope will serve a critical role in ending the martial law regime. Or, the papal tour may become the denouement of this festering feud...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: Marcos's Sin and the Papal Tour | 1/31/1980 | See Source »

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