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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administration official said the charge of discrimination against union activists is "absolutely and totally false"; another acknowledged with a laugh that the idea was tempting but impossible because of the close scrutiny given to administration policies...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: A Great Place to Work | 9/29/1979 | See Source »

...idea seemed foolproof enough to its creator, Kyriazis, who pushed the program after a friend of his at the University of Pennsylvania set up a similar organization there...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Help Wanted | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

...doubt Kyriazis has. After all SHS is his baby and he's eager for an admiring audience. Rubin raised questions about Kyriazis' motives im promoting SHS. "A lot of people thougt he was in it for the business. He was most interested in selling the idea and once it went through, he let it go." Kyriazis responded, "Anyone who really knows me knows I am really dedicated...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Help Wanted | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

...proprietress could only be Jane Fonda, who founded her health salon after discovering how exercise helped her slim down for her bikini-clad role in California Suite. "I started classes, five times a week. It was the most amazing thing. That's when I got the idea to do this." On a clear day, the Befores can see an ideal After: Fonda herself, at 41 a svelte mother of two, scissoring and sitting up. · He brought along a hair dryer to blow out the candles on the six-foot-tall birthday cake. "I wasn't about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Trapper John, M.D. (Sept. 23, CBS, 10 p.m.). This M-A -S-#spin-off is the most misproduced show of the season: a seemingly foolproof idea completely spoiled by, well, fools. The series picks up its title character (originally played on television by Wayne Rogers) 28 years after Korea. Nowadays Trapper John is chief of surgery at a San Francisco hospital, and he is acted with consummate world-weariness by Pernell Roberts. A few grafted-on references to M*A*S*H notwithstanding, the show turns out to be nothing but an inept Marcus Welby retread. The plotting is vague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: New Season: III | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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