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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Quincy House Committee Sunday night voted to continue its boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), and suggested a list of reforms for the group...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Quincy Supports CRR Boycott; North Only House Still to Vote | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

...cluttered-a creative mulch of dolls' heads, car wheels, batteries, record-player motors, computer entrails, synthesizers and oscilloscopes-but he knows where the action is. "Try an experiment," says De Koven. "Bring in 30 of your most beautiful mechanical games and two cruddy electronic games to a group of kids, and see what happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Beeping, Thinking Toys | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...held a fascination since the mid-1960s, when he learned of it on an agricultural project in Viet Nam. A prisoner of the North Vietnamese from 1968 to 1973, he returned to the U.S. and helped herald its wonders to a growing list of tropical countries suffering deforestation. A group of Haitians now plans to grow 12,000 acres of leucaenas. The Philippines has its own ambitious leucaena program; so too do India and Indonesia. In fact the only signs of indifference Benge has found are in his own federal agency. But he will not be deterred. "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Schmoo Tree | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...high school to replace his brother Gummo, who left the family vaudeville team before it moved to Hollywood. Cast as the straight man, Zeppo joined Chico (who died in 1961), Harpo (1964) and Groucho (1977) in five classic films, but he tired of his role and left the group after the release of Duck Soup in 1933. "He was a lousy actor," grouched Groucho, "and he got out as soon as he could." But Zeppo eventually became the richest of the brothers, working variously as a talent agent, an airplane parts manufacturer and a citrus grower. His marriages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 10, 1979 | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...apartment in the fin de siècle Chelsea Hotel and marched to the festivities on his own. He also chose stairs instead of an elevator and a hard chair rather than a soft one, but he did consent to pose at the piano with his cake and a group of fellow musicians that included Conductor André Kostelanetz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 10, 1979 | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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