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...Daily Spectator predicted in an editorial that "Under President Sovern's hand, Columbia will prosper." The newspaper added that, "It feels good to be proud of the university in this the start...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Columbia Inaugurates Michael Sovern | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...through an organization called the American Institute in Taiwan. The name is a polite fiction; the office is funded by Washington and staffed by State Department personnel "on leave" from their Government jobs. Though the arrangement infuriated the Taiwanese at the time, the controversy quieted as Taiwan continued to prosper commercially and the mainland made no efforts to absorb the island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Case Study in Confusion | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...survivalists. They share the more moderate belief, long held by Mormons, that it is only prudent to have a year's store of food on hand in case of pestilence or famine. Their grand sachem is Howard Ruff, 49, devout Mormon, professional pessimist and author of How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years (2.5 minion copies sold). Ruff is the economic evangelist behind Ruff Hou$e, a half-hour syndicated television show that preaches to 2 million viewers every week the benefits of investing in hard goods, gold, silver coins and small-town real estate. Acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Planning for the Apocalypse Now | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

...inherited the Kennedy legend. In marrying a Hollywood superstar, he became a consort Arthur to Elizabeth Taylor's hot-copy Guenevere. To this moment, he indisputably speaks the King's English, something that still makes every closet colonial in America tug his forelock. Burton will make Camelot prosper, but even he, with his nimble intelligence, could scarcely impart any logic to the show. The story is a love triangle; yet, the nature of that love is never articulated. Does Queen Guenevere (Christine Ebersole) love King Arthur (Burton) for the sweet reasonableness with which he wishes to foster justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: One Brief Tarnished Hour | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

...theater where he founded the Garden Grove Community Church in 1955. Four years did he sojourn there, and the cars in his flock did wax and grow, and so he later moved to a larger church with a bigger parking lot costing $3 million. But still did his ministry prosper, faster yet in 1970 when the pastor began his nationwide Hour of Power on TV. "We were turning people away," he cried. So Architect Philip Johnson has built him a Crystal Cathedral of gleaming glass for $16 million, with seats for 3,000 and 90-ft.-high doors that swing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 26, 1980 | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

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