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Eloquently limning the broad goals for the 1970s, summoning Americans to a new "age of reform," Richard Nixon was inspiring in evoking the image of a refurbished and replanned America. Perhaps the finest line in his speech was the assertion that "our recognition of the truth that wealth and happiness are not the same thing requires us to measure success or failure by new criteria." He issued a timely call for a new selflessness: "The greatest privilege an individual can have is to serve in a cause bigger than himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Summons to a New Cause | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, in one film after another for the past two years, Sutherland has been filling the screen with a low-key presence that has left critics grasping for adjectives and audiences grasping for his name. All that is changing, however, for he is becoming established as one of the finest talents in the cinematic youth movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Who Was That Guy? | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...monumental work that has never before been shown outside Nigeria. For several hundred years, it has sat overlooking a remote reach of the Niger, venerated by the Tada villagers who believe that the legendary hero Tsoede brought it to protect them from misfortune. African scholars consider it the finest surviving example of the Yoruba court art that flourished at the religious center of Ife 1,000 years ago, when Europe was still sunk in the darkness of the Middle Ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: African Images, Powers and Presences | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

Denizens of Jack n Jill are now talking up a large money match between Lassiter and The Hawk, Lassiter has always been acknowledged as the finest nine ball player in the world, but now there are some doubters...

Author: By Jim Morgan, | Title: Wig, Marlboros Win Va. Pool Tournament | 1/28/1970 | See Source »

Kilbridge, however, said in a statement Friday that UFS was "one of the finest programs in this school" and that he would continue to support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hartman Will Be Asked to Remain As Head of UFS | 1/21/1970 | See Source »

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