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Though only about 1% of the Taj's surface has been affected, the damage is already distressingly obvious. Marble that was once a bright white is now streaked with pitting that gives it a yellowish cast. Some red sandstone of adjoining buildings has actually begun to flake. The chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Is the Taj Mahal Doomed? | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

It was an unusual campaign, pitting two candidates trained in science against each other. Ray, 66, was a professor of zoology before joining the Atomic Energy Commission, which she headed in 1973-74; McDermott, 43, is a psychiatrist who continued treating patients to supplement his $9,600-a-year legislative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Defeat for Dixy Lee Ray | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

It had been billed as Das Duell (The Duel), and it was expected that the West German election campaign pitting Chancellor Helmut Schmidt against Conservative Challenger Franz Josef Strauss would be a stimulating confrontation of intellects and ideologies. Instead, halfway to the Oct. 5 election, it has been a disappointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: All Over but the Acrimony | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

And so the issue of changing the calendar comes down to a familiar one for the Faculty, pitting educational against financial interests. Olsen says a quarter of a million dollars in energy savings ought to offset the hassles of the change. "I never said there weren't going to be...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: The Calendar Reform Waltz | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

For weeks tout Detroit had been salivating over what figured to be a Motown massacre, a bitter, high-stakes divorce hearing pitting Auto Mogul Henry Ford II, 62, against estranged Second Wife Maria Cristina Vettore Ford, 49. How much of Ford's wealth could the Italian beauty he had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 3, 1980 | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

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