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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard, (now 1-2), outscored South Carolina, 10-2, down the final 2:20, the garba ge time points closing the gap to respectability. But on the plane ride back home this morning. McLaughlin will no doubt still be muttering over the disputed call. He won't be whistling Dixie, but he just may be humming 'Three Blind Mice...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Gamecocks Top Crimson; Rally Fails In 85-71 Loss | 12/5/1978 | See Source »

Vice President Walter Mondale recognized Jones' help in the 1976 campaign and invited him aboard his private plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Messiah from the Midwest | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Inside the Cessna, the young man, later identified as Larry Layton, 32, proved that he should have been watched. He opened fire with a pistol, wounding a woman, Vernie Gosney, who was seated beside the pilot. Layton ran from the plane. After the assailants withdrew, the Otter was found to be too damaged to fly. Its crew rushed over to the Cessna and managed to take off for Georgetown with five survivors...

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

...each partner, that can work out to a $20,000 direct tax credit, plus a minimum of $80,000 in deductions. In a few more years the partners can recoup all their original investment in tax breaks despite having to pay a levy on income from leasing out the plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: What Is Left in Tax Shelters | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...quite a different plane is Last Wave Director Peter Weir's earlier Picnic at Hanging Rock. Though not scheduled for the New York festival, it is a haunting re-creation of a true incident in 19th century Australian history, in which some schoolgirls disappear from an outback outing, never to be seen again, and with no satisfactory explanation for their disappearance ever discovered. Weir creates an oppressive atmosphere, a compound of heat, isolation and sexual innuendo that is quite singular. His skill at wringing terror out of emptiness and silence, his sense of the fragility and smallness of Europeans cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Up from Down Under | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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