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After trouncing the Big Red, Columbia's powder keg offense seems ready to erupt after remaining quiescent throughout midseason. Folowing the first three games of the season against Harvard, Lafayette and Penn, the backfield had churned for 667 yards, and Columbia was running ninth in the voting for the Lambert Trophy...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The Lion Legacy | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...politicians to rise on the American political scene in this century, was talking about what kind of a President he would be. In an interview last week, he mused to TIME Correspondent Dean E. Fischer: "Most of my attitude toward Government is very aggressive. I wouldn't be a quiescent or a timid President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Jimmy Carter's Big Breakthrough | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

There are inner conflicts in a mood that rejects politics-as-usual, yearns for something new but also seeks a quiescent normality. Yet some generalizations can be drawn about which candidates so far have benefited most from the emerging mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOOD: The Search for Someone to Believe In | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

American history shows a kind of ebb and flow in national purpose and social activism. The progressive era was followed by the quiescent, conservative Harding, Coolidge and Hoover regimes. Then came the great frenzy of the New Deal and the war, which were succeeded by the calm Eisenhower years. Kennedy, in his phrase, got "America moving again"-right into the hyperactive Johnson era. During the Nixon years there came another pause, domestically at least (until Watergate spoiled the calm). That pause has continued under Gerald Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: NEW STARTS FOR AMERICA'S THIRD CENTURY | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

...Times, for example. One article said that a veteran of Vietnam, Rhodesia, Iraq and Biafra is recruiting 1,000 mercenaries in Britain to fight for the National Front for the Liberation of Angola. In a special dispatch, the "battle lines between Christians and Moslems" in Beirut were described as "quiescent." There was also a report that evidence exists for Nixon's pledge of $3.25 billion in post-war reparations to North Vietnam. Another story described 120 Vietnamese children, crippled and mained for life, who are living in the West German Oberhausen Peace Village, the subjects of a dispute between those...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Out of the Trenches | 2/4/1976 | See Source »

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