Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter how many "combat" assignments a journalist gets, each new one brings its own special dangers, as Tehran Bureau Chief Bruce van Voorst discovered while reporting for this week's cover story. A veteran correspondent who joined TIME only last month, van Voorst, 46, has covered conflicts in the Dominican Republic, Jordan, Chile and Lebanon, plus the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. But he judges Iran to be his most dangerous territory...
...theft had a fluky ending. Acting on a tip, police recovered the statue on Valentine's Day from a locker at Grand Central Station; a crude heart had been scratched above its right eye. Nonetheless, the incident underscored the fact that no museum−no matter how prestigious−is immune from the epidemic of art thefts that is sweeping the country. Late last year, three Cézannes worth $3 million were stolen from the Art Institute of Chicago. On Christmas morning, bold cat burglars penetrated the security system of San Francisco's M.H. De Young Memorial...
Brewer promised to think the matter over and to answer Vellucci sometime next week...
...matter wasn't all that simple. In December, several administrators, including Dean Fox and Dean Rosovsky, created a student-faculty committee whose charge is to develop a University policy on boycotts. Yet despite Calkins' definitive statement of policy in his letter to Stone, the co-ordinator of the committee, Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said the group was nowhere near any decision...
...member of the committee who was present at the joint meeting, said, "We absolutely didn't decide that." Epps was even more perplexed. "It makes me wonder if what we're doing is really worthwhile," he said, adding that he would get to the bottom of the matter, and soon...