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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...authors are listed by the "name used predominantly" in their works, no matter what their real name may be. Stein has published two novel under the name Harry Patterson, while other U.S. publishing houses have produced at least 17 books by Jack Higgins Thus Stein lost the name game. Moreover, said Tucker, if Stein & Day did not go along with the verdict, the firm could be excluded from the library's cataloguing program. "The bureaucratic mind gone mad," sputtered Publisher Sol Stein in an angry letter of appeal to Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin. "I beg you to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Name Calling | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...patient care and, above all, freedom from what they consider the dominating attitude of doctors. Says Connie Curran, associate dean of nursing at the University of San Francisco: "Nurses are refusing to do the cleaning up after physicians; they're refusing to play the old male-female game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rebellion Among the Angels | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...season of the festival, and a festival nowadays is a protean feast. It is a group of local notables trying to put clothes on live chickens in a contest at the Hamilton County Fair near Cincinnati. It is a baseball game at the New England Clown Convention in Salem, Mass., where no one knows who won because the bases kept moving and the umpire used a fire extinguisher to settle disputes. It is Cincinnati's Don Cook, who takes pride in being able to grow an instant beard by letting bees swarm to his chin. It is 102 vintage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Summer, U.S.A. | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...replaced the old roll in the hay. The test-tube method allows the selection of genetically superior bulls, but there has always been a little problem with the cows. Even the best breeders normally drop only one calf a year. Now Mother Nature has been beaten at her own game by a new method that enables ranchers and farmers to turn the best of their cows into instant supermoms, capable of producing whole herds of exceptionally meaty or big-milking offspring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Supercows | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...regular golf game with an Alliance lawyer ended when he had to rule on a close case in his friend's favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Chewing on It in Nebraska | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

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