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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stealing a jump on the President, Senator Edward Kennedy conducted his own hasty investigation. His Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research summoned, among others, NRC Chairman Joseph Hendrie. Irritated by Hendrie's unflappable, all-too-cool testimony, Kennedy complained: "I would think you would have a greater sense of anxiety than you apparently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Now Comes The Fallout | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...ourselves seriously. We're just a bunch of stupid kids making toys." Spielberg doesn't go quite that far, but he doesn't mind being called a "popcorn" director. "It's what I've chosen to do," he says. "I like to see people jump out of their seats. In that sense, I'm as much of a whore as the vaudevillians were, and proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Animal House Goes to War | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...going to jump at the administration's throat, because I'm not convinced the University is a villain," he added. "The University's deprecation of the department is supported by the views of the students who refuse to take our courses--if more white students took our courses, the University would find it necessary to support us," Cudjoe said...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Cudjoe Speaks on Afro-Am Department | 4/11/1979 | See Source »

...some energy measures that would stress increased domestic oil production to reduce the nation's perilous dependence on the OPEC cartel. Throughout the industrialized world, meanwhile, governments were struggling to keep alive a recovery from a sharp recession that in large part had been caused by the big jump in oil prices since 1973. In this atmosphere, the cartel's decision was a shocker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: OPEC's Dangerous Game | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

Hunt also got first-place finishes from Kathy Rice in the long jump and Sue Harper in the 440 intermediate hurdles...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: Weather, Minutemen Mar Thinclads' Outdoor Debut | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

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