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Uncommon Women and Others, produced by Manhattan's Phoenix Theater, begins as a mini-reunion in a restaurant. Five Mount Holyoke College graduates (the "uncommon" ones) have got together six years later for one of those treacherous show-and-tell sessions. In flashback, the women return to their senior year. The college feels tremors of future culture shock, the expanding, unnerving world of women's goals and options...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Stereotopical | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...vinifera, the local farmers said we were full of prunes, that it wouldn't work." Yet a 1971 Tabor Hill Vidal blanc was served in the White House by Michigander Gerald R. Ford. Though Olson and his partners are still struggling financially, they have visions of a mini-Napa Valley on the shores of Lake Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Shaking California's Throne | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

Pierpont noted the overwhelming success of the fall mini-season was a "great time" and "built up team confidence." She added that the netwomen are prepared to face much tougher competition in the spring, when Ivy League competition begins...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Netwomen End Perfect Season By Soaring Over B.C. Eagles, 6-1; Martha Roberts Stars | 10/28/1977 | See Source »

...moments of extreme crisis for the P.L.O., debate is sometimes suspended and democracy begins (or ends) at the barrel of a gun. During the recent mini war in southern Lebanon (TIME, Oct. 3), for example, Arafat's Fatah troops accepted a cease-fire designed to halt fighting between Palestinians and the Lebanese Christians. The P.F.L.P. refused and continued to lob shells toward Israel. Arafat solved the problem: he ordered his men to arrest 14 P.F.L.P officers until Habash agreed to the truce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The P.L.O.: Democracy Gone Wild | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...Arabia within three years. He had already succeeded in delivering a berg of sorts to Iowa, which had not seen one since the last glacier retreated, some 12,000 years ago. To dramatize his plan, the prince spent $5,000 to transport-by helicopter, plane and truck-a mini-berg of clear blue ice from Alaska's Portage Glacier to the conference, where it was chopped up and used for the delegates' drinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Towing Icebergs | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

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