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...Democrat to a Republican, and had he stayed in Texas watching the Watergate drama and the tragedy of Richard Nixon, he might have won the Democratic nomination in 1976 and been President today. Or if Richard Nixon had only taken Connally's advice-made at least a partial confession of his involvement in the Watergate cover-up-he might have ridden out the storm and then that same John Connally might have been President. But a Republican President. Small difference to John Connally, who plays life as it lays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: He'll Let Us Know | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

Carter will also be watching for openings that can lead to a separate Egyptian-Israeli peace. Begin would welcome this?he calls it a "permanent partial peace"?but Sadat has always balked, fearing a backlash from the other Arab states. While U.S. officials doubt that the Egyptian can be coaxed from his position, one Administration staffer advised: "We'll have to see if Sadat's resolve slips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meeting At Camp David | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...addition, each student must ntake two further half-courses must cover higher-level material, and be offered by the respective departments instead of the Committee on Gen Ed. Further requirements, such as a foreign language and Expository Writing, only complicate the picture, as does the moderately Byzantine arrangement of partial and complete by-passes of the Gen Ed courses. And no road maps allowed, either...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Farewell to Gen Ed | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

Last week, after investigating a recent outbreak in Bloomington, Ind., which killed three people, Atlanta's Center for Disease Control announced a partial solution of that puzzle. The organism, or one closely resembling it, was found in water from an air conditioning cooling tower atop the Indiana University Memorial Union Hotel, where many of the victims had stayed, as well as in a nearby creek. The key to the discovery: two new culture media specifically designed to foster laboratory growth of the bug, which ordinarily multiplies so slowly that it is obscured by other bacteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tracking the Philly Killer | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...zeal, as he is the first to acknowledge, Califano is only a partial boss of his own house. Sometimes he talks as if he too were just another private citizen gazing in amazement at a bureaucracy nobody can quite fathom, much less control. Authority is so splintered that HEW seems to be run by nobody and yet run by everybody. And everybody wants something from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beneficent Monster | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

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