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Jimmy Carter, who only a few months ago was acting the Gulliver bound by the Lilliputians from Congress, has in the past few weeks impressed the world with a few nods, a spoken O.K. or two and some marginal notes scribbled on his option papers. Suddenly the pitiful giant is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Gulliver Is Up and Around | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

That is the concern of former Secretary of Defense (and more recently, of Energy) James Schlesinger. In an interview last week with TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, Schlesinger described the fall of the Shah last January and the rise of Khomeini as "a cataclysm for American foreign policy?the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blackmailing the U.S. | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

The defense, which had kept loses respectable in the early-season, was badly in need of bolt-tightening and gave a previously pitiful Darmouth offense a clear track up and down the gridiron.

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Of Machines and Alumni | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

The public address told the pitiful story when it gave the second half statistics: "Shots on goal--Harvard--zero." "We need someone to take it on himself to shoot," coach George Ford understated after the game.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Slide To 3-1 Loss At Baker Field | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

The public address told the pitiful story at the end of the second half: "Shots on goal--Harvard-0."

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Booters Sink in New York Slime, 3-1 | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

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