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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defects in 26 reactors built by General Electric might cause the release of radiation in an accident similar to the one in Pennsylvania. The scientists have also produced a pamphlet, called the "Nugget File," that describes mishaps at nuclear plants, like the use of a basketball to plug a pipe leading from a radioactive tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Watching the Watchdogs | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...anyone who has dealt with the Harvard bureaucracy knows, many a brainstorm has gone out to sea in a tornado of red tape. Jackson also knew that if he didn't do his homework in advance, administrators would view his "boxing extravaganza" as nothing more than an unfeasible pipe-dream. After all, intramural boxing at Harvard had been banned in the early 1970s...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Harvard's Boxing Renaissance Man | 4/13/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson had thoughts of turning the tables when Lauren Norton's goal at 1:41 of the second pulled the icewomen to within one. Norton came around the cage and tried to pool cue the puck by the near post. B.U. goalie Mary-Leslie Ullman had not guarded the pipe tightly enough, and Norton's english skidded the disc...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Icewomen Lose Beanpot Consols, 4-1 | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

Though most recipients are Protestants, a Roman Catholic parish in Poland was smuggled a new motor for its pipe organ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Smugglers of the Word | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...other nations too, Bill asserted, "we can at least get in touch with some of the people that might be running the country" in the future, rather than "chaining ourselves to leaders who are going down the pipe." But Oil Expert Walter Levy wondered if the U.S. should instead do its best to prop up the present leaders, trying to buy time. Levy readily admitted that this approach collapsed in Iran. Call it shortsighted, he said, but supporting the status quo "may give us another five or ten years in Saudi Arabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Searching for the Right Response | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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