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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...draft of an agreement that he believed-and millions of others were soon led to believe-would lead to a rapid settlement of the Viet Nam War. What went wrong? TIME correspondents in Washington, Paris and Saigon have reconstructed the chronology of events, both public and hitherto secret, since peace first appeared a possibility...
...reason and prudence. During the great splurge, dividend money in the hands of aggressive investors was often looked on as merely another tool to manipulate stock prices. As a source of stable income, the philosophy went, "dividends are for old ladies." The eventual losers included some of the hitherto most conservatively managed money groups in the country-including university endowment funds, whose trustees were urged to pursue "unconventional investing" by no less influential a benefactor than the president of the Ford Foundation. Result: many funds got stuck with worthless paper...
...whose findings are as surprising as were Kinsey's disclosures in 1948. Judging by the sample of 2,625 men and women, both married and single, who were interviewed for the report, the French are in fact far more conservative and less imaginative in their lovemaking than they hitherto suspected...
Bitter have risen from the nation's universities as they find a flow of mutilated, creased, and qualified checks flooding from the federal government the days. At Harvard, crimps in the federal large have not hurt so much as elsewhere, but the adulterated river of aid has put a hitherto overlooked entity into light. An informal lobby, presided over by Charles U. Daly, vice president for Government and Community affairs, has begun to feel the rest and strain of a hostile drift in Congress and to turn necessarily to a more visible role...
...systems. He had constructed a special camera and lens apparatus to black out the corona and search through the resulting darkness for objects within the orbit of Mercury. Astronomers have long talked about a hidden planet near the sun, tentatively named Vulcan, and Baker hoped to find this, or hitherto unseen comets. Only weeks of analysis will show whether he succeeded...