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...participant called "a very dismal" report. Carter was due to leave Israel that evening, and some of his bags had already been put into a guarded van outside the hotel. Judging that it was already too late to leave that day, however, the President decided to remain overnight and invite Begin to a farewell breakfast Tuesday morning. He would then fly to Cairo for a one-hour courtesy stop at the airport to brief Sadat. For four hours Monday evening, while Carter's plans remained uncertain, the highway from Jerusalem to Ben-Gurion Airport remained closed to provide absolute security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peace: Risks and Rewards | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...flop TV series (the revived Laugh-In, the Richard Pryor Show). Then, last fall, ABC unveiled its new offerings for the 1978-79 season. Robin Williams, 26, was given the lead in Mork & Mindy, a spacy sitcom, and he became what the moguls love to call an overnight star. For once the Hollywood hyperbole is actually appropriate; Mork & Mindy is often at the top of the charts and is seen by an average of 60 million viewers each week. To be the star of TV's No. 1 hit is to be the most highly visible show-biz personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Manic of Ork: Robin Williams | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Griffin said firemen faced problems with gusty winds from the overnight storm, which threatened to spread the fire to adjoining buildings, but they managed to confine the fire to the warehouse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four-Alarm Blaze Strikes Warehouse At Industrial Park | 2/27/1979 | See Source »

When the Massachusetts house of representatives last week took up Governor Edward King's request to raise the legal drinking age to 21, scores of college students crowded into the gallery. "Atta way, baby!" they shouted when the house watered down the measure. But King lobbied overnight, and the house and senate then overwhelmingly voted to set the age at 19. The two houses are expected to agree soon to move the limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Closing the Tap | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...know, probably, there have been many many experiments under way in this country me of which have failed, some of which show promise of success. The one thing about all of them is that they say, 'go slow.' You don't see results overnight and it would be a mistake to anticipate getting results overnight. In GM corporation where we've been taking the lead in the automobile industry in introducing such programs, we've had some pretty good success. Local unions seem enamoured of QWL programs where they've had a taste of introducing and initiating them. There...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg and William A. Schwartz, S | Title: UAW: Loosening the Chains | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

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