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Word: hubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...associate: "There was a vacuum. You would sit in a meeting to hash out a problem. Everyone would speak his piece and then go off and do what he intended to do in the first place. Now Hamilton makes assignments and we all recognize that he is the hub of the staff wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Unsinkable Ham Jordan | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...program seems to be succeeding. Infant mortality rates have declined in each of the regions served by the project. At New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, the hub of a 16-hospital network in Manhattan and New Jersey that handles 16,000 births a year, the incidence of stillbirths, and deaths within seven days of life in infants weighing 2.2 lbs. or more has dropped from 22.8 per thousand births in 1967 to 9.6 per thousand in 1977. Many of these problem births were from the Harlem ghetto, and Administrator Dr. Solan Chao points out that quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Helping Hand for the Newborn | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

From a distant hill, the 40-mile-long multicolored ribbon, snaking through the Iowa cornfields, looks like the ultimate outdoor crazy sculpture. At hub and t-shirt level it turns out to be the American version of the Tour de France-sans hype, heartbreak, commercials, competition or prizes. It is the annual amateur week-long bicycle marathon from the Missouri to the Mississippi, as amiable a happening as any to be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Iowa Bikeathon | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

Perched on a sunny concrete patio of Bursley Hall, the dormitory hub, Vincent Bertolino, 19, and Chris Nadolny, 16, schemed to carve up the Third Reich. Between them was a stylized map of Germany, replete with rivers, hills and other obstacles. Equipped with cardboard counters representing military units, Vincent took the role of Russian Supreme Commander in 1945. Chris was his American equivalent. The object was to bash away at Nazi forces-and then grab as much territory as they could. "It's an intellectual thing," explained Chris, a high school junior from Morristown, N.Y. "I've always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ann Arbor: The Guns of July | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

Boston By Foot--size 10 and up (men's) only this weekend. A great way to get to know something about the Hub or Beacon Hill. Saturday at 10 a.m., Sunday at 2. Call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ODDS | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

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