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One word characterizes the state of student government at Harvard: uncertainty. Members of the student-Faculty Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), College administrators and former delegates to the now-defunct Constitutional Convention are picturing at least a half-dozen scenarios of impending upheaval in student representation at Harvard...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Uncertainty Is the Key Word As Assembly Elections Near | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

The Israelis responded to the Arabs' gratitude by sending newly appointed Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan on a round of secret visits to Middle Eastern capitals. Premier Menachem Begin had come to power a month earlier vowing that Israel would retain the West Bank and Gaza, Arab lands captured during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Israel's Secret Contacts | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

News of the impending birth of a baby conceived in a test tube caused scant surprise-or suspicion-among scientists and doctors. That was a far cry from their reaction last March, when they challenged as a "fraud" and a "hoax" a book called In His Image that claimed a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Test-Tube Baby Is Not a Clone | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

The first public hint of the impending birth of a British test-tube baby came last spring not from London's Fleet Street but from, Manhattan's South Street, in the New York Post-After getting a tip that Britain's Dr. Patrick Steptoe was on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Frenzy in the British Press | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

Central bankers are by tradition an aloof bunch, awed into solemnity by their own eminence as arbiters of a nation's money supply and guardians of the value of its currency. They immerse themselves in financial esoterica, dress somberly in three-piece blue suits, and give the impression that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inflation: Attacking Public Enemy No.1 | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

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