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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIVORCED. Actress Candy Clark, 32, blond confection in American Graffiti; and Marjoe Gortner, 35, child evangelist turned actor; after 20 months of marriage, eleven of them spent apart; in Los Angeles.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Ann Dvorak, 67, brunette film star of the '30s and '40s who debuted as Paul Muni's sister in the 1932 gangland classic Scarface; of cancer; in Honolulu. The smoky-voiced Dvorak was best known for playing suffering, hard-luck women opposite such stars as James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Murray Gurfein, 72, federal judge who rejected the Nixon Administration's 1971 suit to block the New York Times's publication of the Pentagon papers; of a heart attack; in New York City. An affable, erudite New Yorker, Gurfein graduated from Harvard Law School in 1930 and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

If a physicist says he is being sent off to a salt mine these days, he may not be joking. He could be heading 40 km (25 miles) east of Cleveland, where an 81-ton digging machine is carving a huge cavity in a salt mine 600 meters (2,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diamonds May Not Be Forever | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Protons, which along with neutrons form the nuclei of atoms-and hence the bulk of the matter in the universe -have long been regarded as permanent fixtures on the subatomic scene, members of a family of heavy particles known as baryons. If they happened to collide with still other subatomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diamonds May Not Be Forever | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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