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Mortimer said Mobil, Exxon, General Electric and Chase Manhattan have contributed to the scholarship fund. She added that other corporations, including General Motors and the Ford Motor Corporation, have pledged their support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South African Educators Tour American Colleges | 3/20/1980 | See Source »

...became the first black to be appointed consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress; of a heart attack; in Ann Arbor, Mich. Hayden's work evoked a heroic sense of the black American past, whether his subject was a powerful personality like Frederick Douglass, the Motor City ghetto of his youth or such physical relics of slavery as the old factory he describes in his 1979 volume American Journal: "[In] the tidy ruins of a sugar mill./ More than cane was crushed. But I am tired today of history, its patina'd cliches of endless evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 10, 1980 | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

Richard G. McLauglin, registrar of motor vehicles, said yesterday there is no evidence of an increase in drunken driving among that age group since the drinking age was raised...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Senate Rejects Proposal; Drinking Age Will Remain 20 | 3/5/1980 | See Source »

...photog who had arrived late squeezed in next to me, but wasn't quite tall enough to shoot over the fray. Turning his camera upside down, lifting it into the air like a divine offering, he fired off about a hundred and twelve frames with his motor drive. "A few Hail Marys and I'm out of here," he winked, and took...

Author: By Paul Micou, | Title: Political Pics and Other Hail Marys | 2/28/1980 | See Source »

...Wichita Falls, Texas. Curious about just how the casualties had occurred, a team of epidemiologists, most of them from the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, decided to investigate. Their study, published in Science, shows that 26 of the deaths and 30 of the most serious injuries occurred in motor vehicles. Most of these victims had tried to outrace the storm, many of them apparently influenced by longstanding federal guidelines that urge motorists on the open road who spot a tornado to try to escape it by driving at right angles to the path of the storm. Ironically, the homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fleeing the Whirlwind | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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