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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only life Sam Walker had ever known. Born at West Point, he was the son of General Walton H. ("Bulldog") Walker, who fought across Europe under George Patton and died in a 1950 jeep accident while commanding the Eighth Army in Korea. Sam Walker became an expert infantryman, master parachutist, and even learned to pilot a helicopter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Case of the Fallen Star | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...would waste the efforts of Arab leaders to try to wipe out the tiny democracy of Israel and take the little territory of the only Jewish homeland in a vast Arab area. Instead, why don't they work with Israel to master the scientific and technological realities of the 20th century and put them to use for their social and economic betterment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1978 | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Home is a comfortable estate briskly run by his Scottish stepmother and filled with attentive servants. Caged in darkness, the young master writhes between despair and bitterness, thinking that the best those around him can do involves simply "nursing him back to a state of health sufficient for him to be left to their all-en-folding embrace of fatuity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Accident | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...House master said this week there are rooms in his House that are literally uninhabitable because of faulty heating systems. Another master complained about faulty wiring systems that short-circuit with surprising regularity...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Putting the Houses in Order | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

Vardi, a 21-year old first-year graduate student at MIT, won seven games, lost two, and drew the remaining two games. He has a U.S. Chess Federation rating of 2201, which qualifies him for the title of Master...

Author: By Raj Marphatia, | Title: Chess Master Plays Simultaneously At 11 Game Boards | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

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