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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon, 43, who appeared for the defense. For Nixon family watchers, the cameo roles played by the two brothers were a bonanza. The two men seldom venture into the glare of publicity. Indeed, Don Nixon had tried to beg off testifying because of heart trouble, but Federal Judge Lee P. Gagliardi ordered him examined by a physician and then decided that he should appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: The Brothers Nixon | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

Correspondent David Lee, who covered the moon landings in the '60s, recently revisited Cape Canaveral and the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: A Ghost Town of Gantries | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...report by the AEC'S top safety experts notes that between Jan. 1, 1972, and May 30, 1973, "approximately 850 abnormal occurrences" in nuclear plant operations were reported to the AEC. Critics use the figure to cast doubt on the reliability of nuclear plants. AEC Chairman Dixy Lee Ray cites the same figure to show how tough regulatory practices are. Both have some justification. Nuclear plants have had more than their share of operating mishaps, ranging from breaks in steam pipes to discoveries of defective welding and corrosion of reactor parts. But all the troubles were caught and fixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FUELS: The Nuclear Debate | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

Brittin is one of four students from Washington and Lee University, a small all-male school in Lexington, Va., that have come north to Harvard to run in the hilly, tortuous, world-famous marathon today...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Four Will Face the Marathon | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

Visitors to the area, like U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, are visibly shaken by what they see: emaciated adults, children with distended bellies, filthy refugee camps where overcrowding has triggered epidemics of measles, influenza and cholera. Reports TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs, who has logged 7,000 miles touring the drought area: "There are experts with many years' experience in the Sahel who see no end in sight to the cycle of drought, famine and death. The Sahel's Tuareg nomads have a saying, 'When the camel collapses, the game is over.' For them, now clustered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: A Feast for Vultures | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

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