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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Russians and Rumanians were whirling their way into the hearts of the packed houses at the Forum (a total of 86,000 watched the gymnastics), a much less diminutive set of women turned the Olympic swimming pool into their own private splash party. The East German women's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OLYMPICS: The Games: Up in the Air | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

Moreover, there is a fragile, but growing consensus among both consuming and producing nations that a strengthening of the system of agreements on price ranges for commodities is necessary to maintain stability. The U.S., for example, once the staunchest supporter of a free market for commodities, recently decided for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Run-Up in Raw Materials | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

On the same afternoon, Tanzania announced that it was boycotting the Games as a gesture against apartheid (see following story), an action that would yank from the Games one of sport's prestige athletes, Filbert Bayi, who holds the world record for 1,500 meters. Possible too was similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE 1,500 METERS,THE DEC ATHLON: ON EDGE FOR THE GAMES | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

On the nation's 200th birthday, it behooves us to do more than blow a trumpet and beat a drum. We should use the occasion to take stock of what is wrong with this country as well as what is right. Miller's play can help us do this. As...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'The Crucible'--Witch-Hunts Then and Now | 7/6/1976 | See Source »

Meanwhile, England's General John Burgoyne, with 8,000 British regulars and Hessians, as well as swarms of Indians, is massing troops at St. John's for a march into New York. On the once promising northern front, the only hopeful sign this week was the sound of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Goodbye to the 14th Colony | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

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