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Not until week's end did Guyanese authorities report that they had miscounted the bodies. Instead of 409, as first related, the count was about 900. U.S. embassy officials confirmed the discrepancy, attributing it at first to the finding of many children's bodies underneath the piles of others. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare in Jonestown | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

At Danville, there are abundant signs of how far-and how far out-dowsing is reaching. In the clapboard churches and meeting halls, the talk is all about body auras, universal grids, Jastram's entities, and illnesses that seem beyond the ministrations of ordinary medicine. At the dowsing convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: Is Dowsing Going to the Dogs? | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

Welcome to the Fall Theater Season of 1978 -- which, as far as Harvard drama is concerned, won't begin until late October. Happily, Boston is bursting with professional plays and musicals, so before the work piles up and the money runs out, try to catch some of these "goodies."

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: Head for the Hub | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

Yet in his way, Piranesi did indeed design a universe. For in his etchings of the ruins of Rome he imagined a grandeur that the city itself never achieved. Horace Walpole marveled at his "sublime dreams" and the way "he piles palaces on bridges, and temples on palaces, and scales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Architect for Dreams | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

Reported Diederich: "Piles of lettuce and carrots lay rotting alongside empty stalls of the central market on Morazan Park. Just a few people ventured along the streets, holding white flags. Others stood in their doorways, moving back into their adobe-walled homes and shops when a rifle cracked close by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: A Battle Ends, a War Begins | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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