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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surrealistic nightmares from the jungles of Guyana have once again put the issue of religious cults squarely in the center of the American stage. In a way that the scattered rumors of mind control and depersonalization among Moonies and Hare Krishna devotees could not, Guyana deaths have focused U.S. public attention on the cults and on the question of what the cults are all about, why people join them, and what import this movement has for our society...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Mantras and Mandalas | 11/28/1978 | See Source »

People who have attended a Devo concert or bought their new album are often just as confused. Is Devo just the latest, most bizarre form of punk nihilism? Is it some recording executive's brain-storm; a way to catch the jaded public's attention? In short, can these guys be serious...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Nothing Like Nihilism | 11/28/1978 | See Source »

Back in the U.S., Baldrige became Tiffany's first woman executive, their public relations director. When the Kennedys moved into the White House, Tish became Jackie's social secretary, as well as J.F.K.'s protocol officer. She loved the work, although she was disconcerted to find that practically every man who took her out was playing her for a power angle at the White House. She became promotions director at the Kennedys' Merchandise Mart in 1963, then opened her own p.r. company in Chicago. Six years later she folded it to go to New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Feminist tasteful Lady | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...well behaved young girl goes to public dances only when properly chaperoned and to a private dance with her mother or else accompanied by her maid, who waits for her the entire evening in the dressing room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: According to Emily (1922) | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...foundation substituted a $75,000 payment, for the expected $500,000 first installment last July, Harry B. Zane, director of public information at Tufts, said yesterday...

Author: By David M. Johnson, | Title: Marcos Foundation Postpones Funding For Chair at Tufts | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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