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Dates: during 1970-1979
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New York City was poorer until last spring when a group of business leaders formed a commission that aims for an annual budget of $500,000 and a professional staff of about ten. The group's first target is violent street crime, which has hurt the city's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Crime Stoppers | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Even the stock players are revitalized by off-center writing. The obligatory blond bombshell (Shelley Smith) turns out to be a Stanford-educated superachiever. The ancient senior partner (the wonderful British actor Wilfrid Hyde-White) is doddering ("I make my best decisions when I'm asleep") and autocratic, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: II | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

The Last Resort (Sept. 19, CBS, 8 p.m E.D.T.) Late last season all three networks hatched Animal House sitcoms only to end up with a short-lived trio of turkeys. Three strikes and out, right? Wrong. In television, bad ideas don't fade away; they become cottage industries. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: II | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Further study of radiation data revealed that besides the fifth and sixth ("E" and "F") Saturnian rings observed a few days before in Pioneer photos, there was an outermost and tenuous seventh ring as much as 960,000 km (600,000 miles) from the planet. Other facts disclosed by Pioneer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bonanza from a Ringed Planet | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Soviet Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko has turned to that most blatantly capitalistic of occupations, making movies. He stars in Take-Off, a film about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, celebrated by the Soviets as a pioneer of space travel. One Moscow critic called Yevgeni's performance patchy. Nevertheless, Yevtushenko gushed that playing the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 17, 1979 | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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