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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee met for the first time last Thursday and Friday in the Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., and will meet again in two to three weeks, Marcum said...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Professors Probe Alleged Atom Blast | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

President Horner met yesterday with Shelley Burtt, president of The Harvard Independent, to discuss why the newspaper printed a full-page advertisement for Bang magazine, a new pornographic publication...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Horner Asks The Independent To Explain Printing of Bang Ad | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

...Met Ed's Unit No. 1, which had been routinely shut down before the accident in adjacent Unit No. 2, had been so poorly maintained that ''boron stalactites more than a foot long hung from the valves, and stalagmites had built up from the floor.'' (The improper operation of some valves in the containment building of Unit No. 2, which is still far too contaminated with radiation to be entered, contributed heavily to the accident.) At a critical time when the NRC, which is headed by a five-man board, should have been deciding whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Scathing Look at Nuclear Safety | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...before weeping fans, Robson married August Belmont, banker, racing-stable owner, and a multimillionaire nearly twice her age. Thus began a new role as society grande dame and philanthropist. Closest to her heart was the Metropolitan Opera, which she rescued in the lean 1930s by forming the fund-raising Met Opera Guild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 5, 1979 | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...turned the moribund British movie industry-and his company, London Films-into an international force in the 1930s. Indeed, about the only place it did not work for him, at least initially, was Hollywood. But that really was not his fault: the place had no hotels or restaurants that met his exacting standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Imperial Alex | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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