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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frank Gerow's remark that it is better for women not to be familiar with penile implants [Dec. 10] is a surprising one. Penile implants are not for self-indulgence, but to aid the male in attaining an erection for intercourse. The other 50% of the intercourse equation is the partner, who must be included if optimum treatment is to be achieved...

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

...rustics on Maui are doing it better. Our device is fitted with a minicomputer; a dial on one's wrist indicates Off, Mild, Medium or Wow! Muzak accompanies our gadget...

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

Botha has a particularly difficult tune of it, since he must somehow obscure the ugly face of racist discrimination. But to translate apartheid as "good neighborliness" is the height of cynicism. One might as well refer to murder as "giving someone a well-deserved rest...

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

...people may think I am joking, but I am totally serious with my choice. He is Claude Ryan, the Liberal leader in the province of Quebec. Ryan has had to face the pressure of separatism, which threatened to break up one of the most politically stable countries in the world. If Canada stays together, it can thank Claude Ryan...

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

...earthquakes, only two 10-ft. firs herald the holiday. And in Washington, a white spruce festooned with 2,500 colored lights and 5,000 shiny ornaments easily upstages the Capitol behind it. But over near the White House the nation's official Christmas tree is dark except for one star at the top because the hostages in Iran have yet to receive a Christmas gift of freedom from the unwise men in the East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: States' Lights and Christmas Rites | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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