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...Nothing would make me happier," allowed Elliot Richardson during his oath-of-office ceremonies at the White House, "than to serve as Secretary of Commerce until January 20,1981-thus putting to rest the notion that I can't hold a job." Richardson, 55, is a former Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Attorney General, Under Secretary of State and the U.S. Ambassador to Britain. "I may be at this very moment entering the Guinness Book of World Records as the most sworn-in of Americans," quipped Richardson. "If I hadn't been moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 16, 1976 | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

...just love the title?-are chubby James Coco and padded Geraldine Brooks. They are the proprietors of a Mom and Pop lunch counter who are required to coo repulsively at each other and rub flab, while their slender customers express ironic wonder that these lard tubs are actually happier than they are. Gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints: The Second Season | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

...home is finished. Our nine grandchildren are close by, we're finally coming out of our money problems. Hubert has never been happier. On Christmas Day one of the kids said to me, 'Dad is much calmer. He listens better.' " Muriel Humphrey has changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Humphrey: How to Succeed Without Really Trying | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...laudable to try to dispel inaccurate stereotypes about the Houses, and it would be good to make students happier about their House assignments. But free choice for students is also a positive good, and so is a degree of diversity among the Houses. Because the present system offers choice and maintains diversity, the Task Force's recommendation for a "no-choice" system should not be adopted. It is equally important, however, that the Faculty continue to work on improving the Quad Houses and constructing the Observatory Hill athletic complex, in an effort to make the Quad a more attractive alternative...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: For Free Choice | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...that is offered in "groups" or by individual experts, the point is to apply what one has been trying to obtain (God's grace, a psychiatrist's knowledge) to children. Thereby one builds something that lasts longer than a particular lifetime: the "New Jerusalem" or the "better, happier world" that several generations of people have hoped to build here in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: Growing Up in America--Then and Now | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

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