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Already, from the Carolinas to New York, little holes are appearing in lawns and backyards, hillsides and woodlands. Any evening now, out will pop millions of dark little bugs. They will scamper up almost any upright object-trees, poles, buildings-and soon strike up a joyous racket, marking nuptial rites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wedding Whirs | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

Cable operators do face some serious obstacles to further growth. The cost of wiring major cities, where cables cannot be strung from poles but must be run underground, is extremely high (as much as $100,000 a mile). Partly for that reason, Chicago does not yet have a cable system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Cable TV: The Lure of Diversity | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

These examples only serve to justify critics like Judge Leon Higginbotham, who in his commemoration of Martin Luther King concluded that college militancy is a charade, motivated by careerism, rather than any commitment to help others. Whether or not this is applicable to Harvard students, (have the admirable ideals of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mock Militancy | 4/28/1979 | See Source »

Czechoslovakians, Poles and East Germans have successfully participated in the Intercosmos program. Romanians, Cubans and Mongolians are reported to be in training for future missions.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet-Bulgarian Space Team Fails in Mission | 4/13/1979 | See Source »

No one could argue that the money was not well spent: the party was as joyous as the occasion. Reports TIME White House Correspondent Christopher Ogden: "None of the warmth or festiveness was lost in the cavernous, 45-ft.-high tent, which somehow, perhaps because of the informal table hopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Feast of Joy | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

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