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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The automobile, especially a Mercedes-Benz, has become the most prized "donation" of all. At the Peking headquarters of a trade corporation, it was not so subtly suggested to a Western businessman that he should donate two cars, one for his own use during occasional visits to China and one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: A Taste for the Take | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

All spring on campus, if the fuss was familiar, so was the issue: divestment. At Harvard, students boycotted classes for a day and picketed the trustees. So did students at Brandeis. At Columbia they staged guerrilla theater protest shows; at Yale, angry students confronted the university's governing corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Keeping Score | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

These symptoms of postaccident trauma are confirmed by doctors. Family Practitioner Dr. John Barnoski of Middletown says that he has been seeing at least four patients a day with symptoms of new emotional distress. Says he: "I have had responsible husbands and fathers in my office unable to cope with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Questioning All | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

Doctors have been treating breast cancer patients with tamoxifen, a drug used in very advanced cases, at an earlier stage of the disease. The theory: many if not most breast cancers are linked with the hormone estrogen. Tamoxifen is an antiestrogen agent that has shown a no table ability to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Promising Drug | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

Mathematically, at least, the chances of producing such a champion seem much reduced: only 1,665 foals were registered when Sir Barton won; 8,434 when Citation won in 1948; last year the number was 31,326. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, member of one of America's most distinguished racing families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Riddle of the Triple Crown | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

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