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...race against Western Airlines--calls were made to hold the flight and the bus was warmed up but the members of our group weren't on that shift. A woman got off, with two small children and six large suitcases. It had cost her $300 to go fifteen minutes in the air but her fur showed that she could handle it. Smiling at the copter pilot, she dialed for a taxi and was off. She had offered the pilot double the normal fee to get her little group out of Cottonwood before ours...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Snowbound in Utah | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...ABOUT fifteen years ago, when high school bekoned Kate and Anna, the two sisters left Northern Canada for Montreal because their hometown had no schools. (It barely had people.) In any case, Kate told Seventeen Magazine that they went to school in the city for about a month before they concluded that they would rather sing in bars than study all day. But somewhere down the line one of them learned basic chemistry, and they exploit their rather finite knowledge in a love song called "NACL" about two sympathetic characters, an atom of chlorine ("valence minus one"), and "handsome sodium...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: From Canada With Love | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...show's most deyastating fault is its length. It runs almost three hours if you include the fifteen minute intermission. This would be excusable if the pace were faster and the humor more sophisticated, but the show drags horribly through long sections of both acts...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Failure in Matherland | 11/10/1978 | See Source »

...Fifteen minutes later, Brynteson dribbled the ball into the left corner of Brown's penalty area and whistled a shot high into the right corner of the Bruin net for number...

Author: By Thomas H. Green iii, | Title: Women Booters Zap Brown for Ivy League Title | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...when a federal district court ruled that sex cannot be used as a criterion to prevent volunteers from serving on combat-related vessels. To comply with this ruling, the Navy is refitting the Vulcan and four other support ships to take on 16 female officers and 375 enlisted women. Fifteen more ships are expected to be remodeled in the next five years, and it is estimated that women will constitute 25% of all support ships' crews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Women May Yet Save The Army | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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