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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gave up on my roommate immediately (not the nicest move, but I could see the handwriting on the wall), but I did not give up on Harvard as fast. Then I met my dormmates...

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: A Ticket to Ride | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...Reagan fund-raising teams--or so he says. But he finds the Republican Party has "lost its soul." What the party and the country needs, he believes, is another Homestead Act--to return Americans to the land and their families; to recapture the spirit of 1862 without having to give 162 acres to each person...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Harvard Hates LeBoutillier | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

Levitt has lobbied for the Small Business Investment Incentive Act, which would give a 10% tax credit to individuals for investments in new issues of firms with a net worth of $25 million or less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: St. George of The Small | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...occasions, Munson asked to be traded to the Indians so he could be closer to his wife Diane and their three children in Canton, 50 miles south of Cleveland. He became a pilot so that he could jet home just for the night after a game. Flying seemed to give him the inner peace he found elusive in the klieg light jungle of baseball. "You get up there," he said once, "and nobody asks you any questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Pride of the Yankees | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...themes sometimes got lost in the variations. During World War II, Esquire concentrated on sports, pinups and adventure fiction; Gingrich, who had left the magazine, had to be invited back to give it intellectual tone again. At this point Hugh Hefner, a circulation promotion writer at Esquire decided to start a magazine of his own, freely borrowing Esquire's formula while gambling that the courts might now be more lenient about nudity. Instead of Esky the bug-eyed lecher as a trademark, Hefner created the Bunny. Facing Playboy's runaway success but unwilling to become a "skin book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Stuck with a Magazine's Genes | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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