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Proxmire did not, but Miller won over everyone else, even though the SEC's investigation may continue to put a burden on him. Miller responded to that with sangfroid: "Only my sleep has been inhibited by the investigation in the past few days. My ability to function at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Defender of the Greenback | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

NO ONE should damn a college drama society for producing an enormously difficult play. Although Anthony Shaffer's thriller Sleuth may not challenge a company the way a play by Ibsen or O'Neill does, in some ways the risks are even greater. In a naturalist classic, after all, the...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Dime-Store Detectives | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

The rest of the matches showed the same clockwork precision that has characterized the racquetwomen's season. At numbers three and four, Becky Tung and Caroline Cunningham swept their opponents away with scores of 15-8, 15-10, 15-8 and 15-7, 15-7 and 18-15, respectively.

Author: By Kevin Shaw, | Title: Racquetwomen Bombard Bowdoin, 7-0; Crimson Finishes Winning Season 8-2 | 3/1/1978 | See Source »

At home or office, routine chores will be performed with astonishing efficiency and speed. Leisure time, greatly increased, will be greatly enriched. Public education, so often a dreary and capricious process in the U.S., may be invested with the inspiriting quality of an Oxford tutorial?from preschool on. Medical care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Living: Pushbutton Power | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

This was the first Tannhäuser Levine had ever led and only his second Wagner opera (the other being the Met's Lohengrin last year). The current season is only his second as music director, and the verdict about his abilities as a collector and builder of talent is not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Sensuous, New Tannh | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

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