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Most scientists breathed a sigh of relief; the specter of local governments proclaiming a hodgepodge of crippling restrictions on the freedom of inquiry had faded-at least temporarily. Local politicians now may go along with the impending federal legislation, which is expected to impose restraints on all researchers-including those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOOMSDAY: TINKERING WITH LIFE | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

In New Delhi there were reports that when Mrs. Gandhi was warned of impending defeat, an inner circle of advisers tried to persuade her to annul the election, arrest the opposition leaders in the name of stability and reimpose the full force of the emergency. Whether or not the reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A Powerful Vote for Freedom | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

It is a dandy half-hour, as well orchestrated an action sequence as you are likely to see, with the director drawing a nice but not overstated analogy between the meaningless violence of the game itself and the larger, equally meaningless violence impending from above. He is not saying the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Waiting for the Blimp | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

Polanski, whose reputation for dating teen-age girls is well known in Hollywood, seemed remarkably unchastened by the impending legal action that could ruin his American career. Three days after his arrest he appeared at a fashionable restaurant accompanied by a girl who looked not a great deal older than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Roman Polanski's Tawdry Troubles | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

A 1975 Crimson parody of the Yale Daily News reported Brewster's impending appointment as Ambassador to Britain.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREWSTER TO COURT OF St. JAMES? | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

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