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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than 600 people attended that demonstration Wednesday to protest the lack of safety for children in Boston's public schools and to urge Mayor Kevin H. White to form a special safety task force...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Feeling Aftershocks | 10/6/1979 | See Source »

However, "Irrevy" (an unspeakable title) is a popularization with a list of supporting technical documents to the back pages. Displaying a refreshing lack of academic pomposity, Gofman dedicates the book to the cartoonists whose works entice prospective readers. Perhaps Gofman feels kinship with cartoonists because, like them, he seems constitutionally unable to mince meanings. The urgency that charges his writing springs from his conviction that no quality of radioactivity is harmless. The National Academy of Sciences upheld the 1969 finding of the Gofman-Tamplin Report that no evidence exists for a safe level of radiation. Gofman also cites a Nuclear...

Author: By Mark R. Anspach, | Title: Radiating Revolt | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

Over 600 people protested the lack of safety for children in the Boston Public Schools yesterday at noon at City Hall Plaza...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 600 Protest at City Hall Against Racial Violence | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

...group as the Omaha telephone directory. At 5-ft. 10-in., he has probably not met a defensive lineman his size or smaller since high school. With a vocabulary peppered with phrases like "test of will" and "if we're inspired enough," it's clear his height--or lack of it--has never really bothered...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Dave Scheper: The Center of Attraction | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

...region. Its leaders were aloof, self-assured, composed. Brezhnev represented a nation that had survived not by civilizing its conquerors but by outlasting them, a people suspended between Europe and Asia, with a culture that had destroyed its traditions without yet entirely replacing them. He sought to obscure his lack of assurance by boisterousness, and his sense of latent inadequacy by occasional bullying. To be sure, no one reached the top of a Communist hierarchy except by ruthlessness. Yet the charm of the Chinese leaders obscured that quality, while Brezhnev's gruff heavynandedness tended to emphasize it. The Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Leonid Brezhnev | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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