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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe the "training" should be jettisoned also. This isn't a football camp, where sweat and hamstring pulls are the entrees baked by a hot summer sun. Nor is it a basketball camp, where blisters form like a plague, "suicide sprints" aren't just a clever term. Former Boston Celtics coach Tommy Heinsohn used to call his Buzzards Bay training camp "Parris Island." Meanwhile, Rick Monday and Davey Lopes head down to "Dodgerland" in Vero Beach, Florida. The sentences seem far from equal...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Diamond Time is Nigh | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

...with Irving Bluestone, conducted on February 7. Bluestone is a Vice-President of the International United Auto Workers union [UAW] and director of the UAW General Motors [GM] Department. He has played a leading role in the introduction of Quality of Work Life Programs [QWL] in GM plants. A form of industrial democracy, these programs aim to give workers greater control over decisions concerning the work process on the shop-floor. UAW's programs represent the first effort by a major union to introduce some measure of shop-floor democracy on a large scale in the United States...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg and William A. Schwartz, S | Title: UAW: Loosening the Chains | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

...impossible to detect. Putting the theory into elegant mathematical form, the Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz added another idea: permeating the structure of all matter, the ether would also slow down clocks traveling through it?in fact, just enough so light's speed would always seem constant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: The Year of Dr. Einstein | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...second relativity paper, the final report published in 1905, Einstein used relativity's mathematics as well as ideas from his photoelectric paper to make a historic deduction: if a body gives off an amount of energy (E) in the form of light, its mass will be reduced by that amount divided by the speed of light spuared (m = E/c2), From there was only one short algebraic step, but a giant intellectual leap, to a more daring conclusion: that mass and energy are not only equivalent but interchangeable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: The Year of Dr. Einstein | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...first episode remained in the publishing world. Rejection slips again crowded Ross's mailbox. "While your prose style is very lucid," wrote Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, "the content of the book didn't inspire the level of enthusiasm ..." After a long delay, Random House sent a form letter, and an editor at William Morrow postscripted a consolation: "Sorry, I liked the opening gambit. Why don't you find an agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polish Joke | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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