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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bergenheim said the university is considering firing several professors who refused to cross the picket lines of striking clerical workers earlier this month. The professors either did not hold classes or held them off campus, he said.

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: B.U. Faculty Files Contract Grievances, Charges Illegal Dismissal Procedures | 9/25/1979 | See Source »

I rushed to Boston airport to get the 4 p.m. Air New England flight to Martha's Vineyard, a 70-mile, 35-minute trip. But then there was a delay: no equipment. Finally, at about 6 p.m., we got on a plane and joined a long line of other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Flying Low in New England | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

John Glenn, for example: Wolfe sketches him as a bit of a prig, a jogging, strait-laced Presbyterian driving an underpowered Peugeot, who scolded his colleagues for their after-hours whoopee. The current Senator from Ohio, Wolfe suggests, may have gone to NASA officials in an effort to replace Shepard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skywriting with Gus and Deke | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

So far, so Kafkaesque. But Vost's prissy, virginal middle age is soon disrupted. He accidentally learns that his daughter is a prostitute; catatonically, he submits to the ministrations of one of Mirabelle's schoolmates before going off to report his daughter to the police. When the women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Harrowing Sex | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Trapper John, M.D. (Sept. 23, CBS, 10 p.m.). This M-A -S-#spin-off is the most misproduced show of the season: a seemingly foolproof idea completely spoiled by, well, fools. The series picks up its title character (originally played on television by Wayne Rogers) 28 years after Korea. Nowadays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: New Season: III | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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