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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger hears an echo from the 18th century, when armies used to maneuver around each other. The one emerging in an inferior position often surrendered quickly so that it could live to fight again. "We march television cameras instead of troops," he says. Warfare that used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Shadow Dancing with the World | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

The living mix with the dead in Da as well. Charlie, a middle-aged playwright, returns to his Irish homestead to bury his Da, his father. He tries desperately to destroy all his memories of the man, anxious to forget even the happy moments in a frustrating childhood. But hounded...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Honor Thy Father | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

I fall, back to the ground. One second, I flip around twice, no parachute. Two seconds, I twirl twice, still no parachute. Three seconds, I plummet, forehead toward the earth. Four, my harness tears at my hips and chest, swings my feet above my head. The parachute glides above me...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Stepping Out Over Taunton | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

Similar situations exist at Boston University, Wellesley College and MIT. But a midwestern school, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a handful of students have had their leases terminated for cohabitating, Marlene Mantyk, housing adviser, says. But John W. Finn, U of M's associate director of housing, says...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: It's 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Students Are? | 11/2/1979 | See Source »

ECONOMISTS aren't the only people who don't understand what's happening to the American economy; their confusion just shows more than anybody else's--they're supposed to understand. But the public today hears only conflicting reports--"We're sailing in uncharted waters," "This is unexplored territory," and...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Riding the Volckerwagen | 10/24/1979 | See Source »

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