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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old Moslem religious leader of Iran's anti-shah movement went to a ground-floor window of the building and waved to the crowds as they streamed past. Many chanted "Hail Khomeini!" and "Death to Bakhtiar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Khomeini Demands Power; Bakhtiar Vows to Remain | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

...beginning of a dialogue that I'd like to see continued," Barbara S. Fischbein '80, chairman of the SAC, and one of the participants in the 90-minute meeting, said yesterday. "I had hoped, probably very unrealistically and idealistically, that we could establish some common ground or principles," she added...

Author: By Steven J. Sampson, | Title: SAC Asks University Officials To Rename Engelhard Library | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

...full. All I could see was that huge, red ash, growing longer by the moment, poised directly above the diesel, ready to fall. Just when I was sure the ash would drop into the tank, he stepped back and tossed the cigarette to the ground. He probably never knew why I was so shaken that afternoon. I could not, of course, have pointed the danger out to him. If I had, he would have shaken his head furiously to deny the charge, sending the sturdiest of ashes into the cauldron below...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The Other France: Life Among the Peasants | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

...ahead of schedule. Then he and his staff chartered three Learjets for Sunday in case the blizzard knocked out the regular commercial airlines that normally carry the films of the editorial pages. It did. When the blizzard finally blew itself out, there were 30 in. of snow on the ground and O'Hare International Airport was closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 29, 1979 | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...that McGraw-Hill could not get him first. McGraw-Hill countered by hiring Lipton, 47. Says an investment banker who has worked with both: "On offense, Flom is a tiger. He pretends there isn't any law and acts accordingly. On defense, Lipton comes up with innovative, ground-breaking lawsuits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Those Guns for Hire | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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