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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formal program is obviously valuable. But like women at their first consciousness-raising session, the mayors are utterly delighted to find other people who share, and above all, understand their problems. As they chat they soon find themselves finishing each other's sentences like old friends. Paul Doutrich of Harrisburg, who looks a bit like bug-eyed Comedian Rodney ("I don't get no respect") Dangerfield, learned about the disastrous doings at nearby Three Mile Island from an enterprising Boston radio reporter who called long distance to check out the rumor of imminent nuclear disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kentucky: Defiant Mice from City Hall | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...Creation of an Energy Mobilization Board, similar to the old War Production Board, empowered to cut through the red tape that often strangles domestic energy projects. One possible example: clearing the way for a pipeline to carry Alaskan crude from California to Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carter at the Crossroads | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

Matthew Strominger '79-3 died Sunday in a mountain climbing accident near Mt. Baker in Washington. He was 22 years old...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mountaineering Mishap Takes Student's Life | 7/17/1979 | See Source »

...sappiness, he finishes with a sentimental flourish equal to Norman Rockwell. When Maguire refuses to sell out to corporate forces, you can't resist a smile and a heartthrob at lines like: "He's running towards a precipice with his eyes wide open." "No, he's just a bit old-fashioned...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Between the Idea and the Reality | 7/17/1979 | See Source »

...Schmidt examines the roots and characters of the Cambridge folk scene from its inception in the late '50s, entering old coffee houses like Tulla's--once near Cahaly's--that first heard the voices of young folk singers like Joan Baez. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Once and Future Folk Scene | 7/17/1979 | See Source »

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