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They traveled by foot, boat and horseback through 18 states, districts, and territories that stretched from Maine to Georgia, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River. Armed with their own quill pens, the 650 census takers of 1790 spent 18 months counting the American people. The total: 3,929,214...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Growing Up with the Country | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

The only sounds are the creak of rigging and the occasional click of ball point pens. Twenty-four students are quietly writing answers on their final exam.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Going to School at Sea | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

schooner R/V (for research vessel) West ward is heading for water only three fathoms deep. Exams or not, the students are needed on the double to lower some 7,000 sq. ft. of sail so Westward will be moving slowly as it leaves the safety of deep water. The sophomores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Going to School at Sea | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

> Hundreds of gold-plated watches, pens and lighters kept in a storeroom. Executives would stroll by and help themselves to handfuls.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Executive Swag | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Lifelike posters of John Paul II-complete with the hint of a halo-were out on the streets too. Vendors were following the Fisher of Souls from city to city like a flock of seagulls. Pope buttons, two for $5, pens, medallions, portraits suitable for framing, Vatican flags, pennants proclaiming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope In America: POPE JOHN PAUL II | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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