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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...OCTOBER 3 of this year the most important strategic arms agreement of the decade will expire, leaving the world's two superpowers faced with the prospect of preventing nuclear war without the help of a Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) accord. Even Big Bert Lance and his big problems look almost petty when lined up against the largest question of them all, the ultimate question of peace. Indeed, so do all the other domestic concerns that have overshadowed the complicated SALT issue since President Carter's ill-fated Moscow initiative last spring...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Avoiding Armageddon | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...prospect of failure looms large, and the fear of failure hangs heavy. But the prospect of success still remains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Close to the Edge: Hanging Tough Through Cuts | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

Both players drove into the middle of the hogsback fairway of Shinnecock's majestic final hole. Hutcheon, though, flew the green badly with his second and was staring at the prospect of a bogey. Faced with a chip that required the touch of a Swiss watchmaker, Hutcheon cooly pitched out of the cloying rough and watched his ball run over 70 feet of green and cascade into the cup. Hutcheon's victory gave the British team its final point of the competition...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The Walker Cup Returns to Shinnecock | 9/21/1977 | See Source »

Vast in scale (though not always in size), lush and rigorous in color, his cutouts are among the most admired and influential works of Matisse's entire career. They belong with the grandest affirmations of the élan vital in Western art. Dr. Johnson once remarked that the prospect of being hanged wonderfully concentrates the mind. In 1941, when he was 71, Matisse nearly died of an intestinal blockage and was bedridden for much of his remaining time. But he felt reborn, and the cut-outs would serve as most eloquent witnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Sultan and the Scissors | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...provided only $15,000 worth of maximum liability coverage for each of its police officers. So O'Brien, 65 and recently retired, was threatened with the possible auction of his sole significant asset-an unmortgaged $18,700 house-in order to help pay for the court judgment. That prospect prompted Boston police to issue a counterthreat, vowing to refuse to drive squad cars citywide unless public funds were used to pay O'Brien's debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Suing City Hall | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

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