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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Access," says President Couper, "is the name of the game. We probably do more here by way of public service than any other institution." Yet even if he had forgotten this, an inscription in the marble of Astor Hall, the library's main, high-ceilinged lobby, reminds visitors that the City of New York built the place in 1911 "for the free use of all the people." On New York's 42nd Street, that promise is all too literally being kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Reading Between the Lions | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...settled by Moscow and Washington with some adroit negotiating. But the Administration lost control of the issue when it conveyed the intelligence findings to Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an Idaho Democrat who faces a tough re-election fight next year. Church went public with the matter on Aug. 30, and did so in an unexpectedly bellicose way. As a result of his hawkish stance and the hard-line position taken by a number of other officials, including Vance early on ("I will not be satisfied with maintenance of the status quo") and Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Search for a Way Out | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...while, U.S.-U.S.S.R. talks on the controversy continued. On Monday, Vance and Gromyko had met at the Soviet Mission to the U.N. Aides to the Secretary described the 70-min. session as dispiriting; Gromyko did not budge from the Kremlin's public position. Nor did he at a second meeting, which took place Thursday at Vance's New York hotel suite and lasted more than three hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Search for a Way Out | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...each of John Paul's stops on this tour, local officials were hard pressed to cope with the intense public demand for a chance to see him. In Boston, authorities worried about paralyzing traffic jams and decided to ban automobiles on the city's major downtown thoroughfares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: John Paul's Triumphant Tour | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Once can be a slip of the lip. Twice in five days looks intentional. And although President Carter and his aides insisted that any such interpretation was wrong, the result could not be denied. In his yet unannounced candidacy against Ted Kennedy, his equally unannounced challenger, Jimmy Carter had publicly evoked a shattering political image: Chappaquiddick. Carter's first reference came during a meeting with a group of news editors at the White House. Asked about the significance of polls on presidential popularity, he replied: "I think we have got a superb record . . . of course, your own character assessment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Once Again, Chappaquiddick | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

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