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Violence is defused, but problems linger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Back to Busing | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...around one period in his life, when he was on hand to help twist American history. When Mee finally meets the enemy, the duplicitous villain he had expected turns out instead to be an object of pity. Watergate is an obsession for Haldeman, but Mee does not need to linger over those unpleasant details. His anti-Nixon tirade and his meeting with Haldeman have purged his pent-up anger, and he can calmly await the renewal of the republic...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Dealing With History | 8/16/1977 | See Source »

Each Friday morning when all are in town, Carter breakfasts with his top two experts, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, as well as Mondale. The Big Four linger over coffee for up to two hours as they mull over an agenda of issues prepared by Vance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: SHAPING POLICY WITH THE BIG FOUR | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...effects of this injury and his manager's reaction still linger; Carew is reluctant to leave the lineup when hurt. Last week, though he had a minor back injury, he insisted on playing. Opposing pitchers quickly took advantage of his stiff swing by throwing high, inside and, for a change, effectively. Carew's average flagged, but he played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball's Best Hitter Tries for Glory | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

Darwin wrote of that epic round: "The clearest picture that remains to me is of the youthful hero playing all those last crucial shots, just as if he had been playing an ordinary game. He did not hurry; he did not linger: there was a briskness and decisiveness about every movement, and whatever he may have felt, he did not betray it by as much as the movement of an eyelash. Yet he did not play as one in a dream, as people sometimes do at supreme crises: he was just entirely calm and entirely natural...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Green Displays Classic Courage and Grace in Open Win | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

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