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...Fourteen minutes later it was bedlam as Diaz slipped Harvard's third goal into the left corner assisted by Villar. Villar snared a loose ball in close, beat Dartmouth's Kent Pierce and fed Diaz in the crease...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Crimson Stuns Top-Rated Dartmouth... | 10/15/1977 | See Source »

...Fourteen years ago, scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests, those college entrance exams taken with dread each year by a million high school students, began to drift downward-after holding steady for decades. The mean score for verbal ability, measured on the SAT'S 200 to 800 scale, dropped gradually from 478 in the 1962-63 academic year into the 430s. The median mathematics score slipped from 502 into the 470s. In 1975, when the combined score plunged eleven points in just one year, alarmed parents and educators demanded to know why. The widespread concern prompted the College Entrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Why Those Falling Test Scores? | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...Editor Burton Pines, who wrote our cover story, has had extenisive foreign experiences: he has served as correspondent in Bonn and Saigon, and covered Eastern Europe from Vienna As a writer m New York for the past four years, he has specialized in stories concerning diplomacy and national security. Fourteen correspondents in eleven bureaus around the world supplied Pines with reports on foreign perspectives. The major reporting was done in our Washington bureau: Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott State Department Correspondent Christopher Ogden, White House Correspondent Stanley Cloud and Pentagon Correspondent Bruce Nelan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 8, 1977 | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...Eastern Europe, reports TIME Correspondent David Aikman. The human rights campaign is cheered not only by the active opponents of the harsh Communist regimes but also by most of the people, who fondly associate the policy with the kind of American evangelical fervor that prompted Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. As Soviet Dissident Andrei Amalrik told Aikman: "The morality of the West is human rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: GARTER SPINS THE WORLD | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

Still, as they say in Southern California, one must go with the flow. In Slow Days, Fast Company that flow is generated by Babitz's fresh, distinctive sense of place: "Outside it's turned pink and the jacaranda tree is magenta, and next door the fourteen-year-old Mexican girl has finished her paper route and swung her long California-bred legs off her bike and now throws a Frisbee at her brother's head, expertly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes Summer: Books for the Beach | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

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