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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hout. Afrikaans term of derision for blacks, meaning woodenhead.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Between the Gat and the Gap | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

The outcry is not too convincing since President Carter has increased the federal payroll by 112,000 jobs after eight years of Republican rule eliminated 115,000 posts. Admits Alan Campbell, chief of the Office of Personnel Management: "The ceilings are creating some need for reshuffling and reassigning of employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Leach's Lash | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

As the NRC investigators continued their post-mortem on the Pennsylvania accident, an advisory panel recommended installation of expensive new monitoring instruments at all 43 of the U.S.'s pressurized-water reactors?the type in use at Three Mile Island. The NRC also heard a complaint from a nuclear analyst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Now for Operation Teakettle | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

For example, the sexual clown, the man who used to do jokes about making obscene telephone calls to a girl, "collect," has now disappeared. Isaac Davis has his troubles with women, but he presents himself as a man who has "never had any trouble finding women." At the center of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Woody Allen Comes of Age | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

The status of the Afro-Am Department is of major concern to all self-respecting members of the Harvard community. While continuing to help cripple the black community in South Africa, Harvard is now threatening ato cripple its own black community with the dissolution of the Afro-American Studies Dept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Boycott: Pro and Con | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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