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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing rage to collect everything from Bruegels to Barbie dolls, is a traditionalist in these matters. "A Louis XV marquetry cabinet would be nice," he says, "though I would be quite content to receive a second painting by Jack Yeats [Poet William Butler Yeats' brother] to go with the one I have." Demarest began covering the auction scene-and, inevitably, acquiring some treasures for himself-while stationed in TIME'S London bureau from 1958 to 1961. "It was convenient," he says, "and I got very good advice. Sotheby's was around the corner from our offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

This wouldn't have happened if Mayor Daley were still alive." So Chicagoans console themselves when things go wrong, and last week, it is true, the late Richard J. Daley would scarcely have recognized his beloved city. A transit workers' strike stranded a million commuters and temporarily disrupted the city's economy. A walkout by oil delivery truck drivers caused a gasoline shortage. For the first time, the city's firemen voted to authorize a strike. And the school system, the nation's third largest, was on the verge of bankruptcy and in danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Talking Too Tough at the Top | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...Bart Conner won a gold on the parallel bars and a bronze on the vault. What was more, the American men captured the bronze in the team competition, the first team medal ever for the U.S. in the world championships. Said Conner: "It's the go ahead, the green light. Now we can go on to every ma jor world competition as a contender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Coming of Age in Fort Worth | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...rything's goin' my way": so go the lyrics. What nook or dell of the U.S.A. in the shadow of the 1980s echoes them? Doubt and the rage of impotence stalk the land. People worry about whether they can gas up to cross a state, let alone found one. With three trusty assistants -his horse, his saddle and his gun-the cowboy hero of Oklahoma!, Curly (Laurence Guittard), is his own man. Where is the man who would dare or would be permitted to carve out his personal destiny that way today? There is a winning comic figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A-yip-i-o-ee-ay! | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...report on last week's hearing will go for consideration to the Cardinals who govern the doctrinal congregation, then to Pope John Paul. A judgment will be months in coming. The Vatican could merely issue a formal warning if it finds "false teachings." It could also bar Schillebeeckx from teaching at any Catholic university or ask the Dominican order to suspend him from priestly functions, as happened to France's Jacques Pohier earlier this year for doubting the Resurrection of Christ, among other things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Not Quite a Heresy Trial | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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