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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...While 100 people is not much of a fluctuation, I think there has been a tendency for application figures to drop, because a lot of people are beginning to realize that law is not a sure route to a career," he said...

Author: By Peter A. Nitze, | Title: Law School Applicants | 5/10/1977 | See Source »

...chance to play Richard III, he has to do the king as a queen. In Neil Simon's new film The Goodbye Girl, Dreyfuss is cast as an aspiring actor ordered by his wacky director to play Richard as gay. "I'll be getting a lot of phone calls from irate history professors," says Dreyfuss. But he is enjoying his role. Says he: "It's a happy movie. It has no Jaws or Midnight Cowboy in it. It's nice and it's funny and people kiss each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 9, 1977 | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...silent movies. One of the program's high points is a put-on of the Hertz Rent-A-Car ad featuring high-stepping Football Star O.J. Simpson. Low-stepping Chevy looks like a disintegrating Tinkertoy, ricocheting through a crowded air terminal on his way to the parking lot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Chevy Slips into Prime Time | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...case, no groundswell of public enthusiasm can yet be detected. The Boston Globe did get a lot of mail on the energy plan, most of it favorable -almost as many letters as poured in last November when it temporarily dropped the popular Doonesbury comic strip. But on Capitol Hill, Congressmen almost unanimously described their energy mail as light to moderate. "It's an absolute drop in the bucket compared with saccharin," said Melody Miller, a Ted Kennedy aide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: On Tiptoe Toward the Big Battle Ahead | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...neurophysiologist whose youthful ambition to study medicine was blighted by the lack of scholarship funds. This phenomenal shaking of the money tree also underscores the growing trend among once decorous publishers to ape the methods of Broadway and Hollywood. A handful of people are gambling with a lot of money up front that they know what the public will buy-that instead of watching Kojak reruns all summer, people will bury themselves in a long saga of life on an Australian sheep station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shaking the Money Tree | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

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