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...White House window on Thursday evening, he spotted some people pressed up against the iron fence along Pennsylvania Avenue. In his shirtsleeves the President went out to see them. As the crowd broke into a verse of one of his favorite hymns, Amazing Grace, Carter climbed the fence to greet them. Friday afternoon, at a two-minute press conference, an unsmiling Carter defended his Cabinet changes as being "all constructive" and said that there would be no further firings. He added: "I need the full support of the American people in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carter's Great Purge | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...their thermostats at 28° C (82.4° F). Although the fashion has yet to catch on with the public, Energy Czar Masumi Esaki has been trying to promote what he calls the Sho-ene (save energy) Look-a short-sleeved suit, sans tie, which he wore to greet Carter last week in Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Fahrenheit Eighty (Gasp!) | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...turned out to greet him. Darkly, the TV commentator explained that "some circles in the Polish church are trying to use [the visit] for antistate purposes." The Soviet press ran a two-sentence news report. Most of the satellite nations followed Moscow's lead, but Radio Free Europe, the BBC and Voice of America filled the gap, beaming extensive radio coverage of the visit. Yugoslavia's weekly NIN remarked: "It is hard to tell where pastoral work stops and politics begins," while Albania's party daily fumed: "The old desires of all the oppressors, the slaveowners, religionists and Popes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Triumphal Return | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...Class of '82 registered on a cloudy Cambridge Monday in September, boasting the lowest sex ratio ever. One thing that failed to greet them was The New York Times, but cockroaches were present in full force, infesting dorms around campus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stability and Change | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

Benjamin said the junior Faculty members would not take a position on the committee proposals until Rosovsky outlined the specifies involved. "We greet such an idea with extreme skepticism," he added...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Council Meets With Afro-Am Junior Faculty, May Create Temporary Governing Committee | 5/18/1979 | See Source »

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