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When Charles' mother was crowned Elizabeth II in 1953, here were many?even among her own cheering subjects?who felt that they were seeing the last of those great coronation pageants, that a tide of egalitarianism was swiftly making obsolete the very concept of monarchy. Now, except among a minority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Man Who Will Be King | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

Carter got elected Governor in 1970, and within three months Georgia's Senator Richard Russell died. Kirbo remembers driving over to the Capitol to offer Carter his list of candidates for Russell's seat. But Carter wanted to name Kirbo. The sagacious country lawyer declined; he preferred to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Charlie Behind Jimmy | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

When the band failed to begin Happy Birthday to You on cue, a nervous p.r. man standing too close to the microphone grumbled, "Why the hell aren't they playing?" Apart from that minor gaffe, the world premiere of That's Entertainment, Part 2, and an accompanying 77th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 24, 1976 | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

The token woman is a black Chicana fluent in Chinese who has borne 1.2 babies (not on the premises, no childcare provided) owns a PhD, will teach freshmen English for a decade and bleach your laundry with tears, silent as a china egg. Your department orders her from a taxidermist...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Notes for Wayward Women | 5/20/1976 | See Source »

Sin of Omission. The search for work is intense. So many job seekers want to enlist in the armed forces that recruiters have raised admission standards, and the Air Force even turns down some men with master's degrees. All over the U.S. employers find they can fill jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNEMPLOYMENT: America's New Jobless: The Frustration of Idleness | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

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