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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bronze on the vault. What was more, the American men captured the bronze in the team competition, the first team medal ever for the U.S. in the world championships. Said Conner: "It's the go ahead, the green light. Now we can go on to every ma jor world competition as a contender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Coming of Age in Fort Worth | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...Justices' idiosyncrasies. "You sure can get the impression from the book that the court is an institution that works," says Co-Author Woodward. "There is strong evidence both ways. But we made a scrupulous effort to be non-judgmental." Indeed, the authors use a "just-the-facts-Ma'am" style; though the facts are not attributed, they novelistically include the Justices' innermost thoughts. In the book's final pages, Justice Stevens ponders his first year (1976) on the court. He finds himself "accustomed to watching his colleagues make pragmatic rather than principled decisions-shading the facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Keyholing the Supreme Court | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Aglaia Sense, Yo-Yo Ma, Peter Gomes and Leonard Bernstein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Christmas Reuelry | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

...evening of 1920s black vaudeville," the show is a kind of nostalgic tribute to black performers who toured the pre-Depression South on the T.O.B.A. (Theater Owners Booking Agency) circuit. Fortunately, there is precious little vaudeville in One Mo' Time!and no imitations of greats like Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Sweet Mama Stringbean, who made their early fame on the circuit. The setting is New Orleans' Lyric Theater. A backstage dressing-room drama, replete with the trials and tribulations of show biz and some seething personal rivalries, constitutes the subplot picture frame for the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Steam Heat | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...drinks, ma'am, $5.20 per person...

Author: By Sarah G. Boxer, | Title: New Orleans Nocturne | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

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