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Within a half-hour of the time the victorious Rodgers entered Prudential Plaza, the garage was mobbed with athletes, some limping with blistered feet, others leaning on the shoulders of friends who had come to greet the heroic conquerors of the distance test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Agony, Ecstasy and Ambivalence | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

Granted, Cheryl Tiegs is striking in face and figure, but do I have to greet TIME with a scissors in my hands? You could have gotten your message across without the "fishnet" picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1978 | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...again from 1972 to 1977. "The ceremonies, which were usually held in the soccer stadium of the new capital city, were full of joy," says Griggs. "At midnight, as the old colonial flag was lowered and the new flag was raised, the crowd would cheer and fireworks would greet the birth of a nation. Yet when I revisited those countries a few years later, the promises of socialism had become the ploys of power politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 13, 1978 | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...last lap of the race, the major candidates of the four principal parties campaigned in a variety of styles. Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais, 57, showed up in Villejuif, a suburb in Paris' working-class Red Belt, to greet his fans in a gymnasium plastered with signs saying ENOUGH INJUSTICE! THE RICH MUST PAY! Displaying the bulldog bluntness that has made him the most entertaining of all the candidates, particularly on TV, Marchais inveighed against the "scandalously" rich. "Do you know there are agencies that specialize in the sale of Caribbean islands where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Truffles and Flourishes | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...Phan Hien, Viet Nam's Deputy Foreign Minister and chief diplomatic troubleshooter, was in Peking on a delicate mission. Teng Ying-ch'ao, 75, the revered widow of Premier Chou Enlai, departed on a good-will visit to Cambodia, and returned to Peking unexpectedly in time to greet Barre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Diplomatic Blues in Peking | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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