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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE'S A CERTAIN danger in looking backwards at an event, or a place. Descriptions of real problems seem to be period pieces, and in some way the past always appears a quieter and happier time...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: Maybe Times Used to be Better | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

THAT MORNING we returned to the house, picking up stones and shells from the beach on the way. He mumbled a little, but he seemed quieter and his anger subsided away from the roar of the waves and the people on the beach. At sunset, though, I heard the tide turn, and I thought of the fog. I looked around and he was gone...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: Bombs and Le Bon Dieu | 2/16/1974 | See Source »

Crowd Was Quieter...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: Councillors Meet With Citizens To Discuss Rent Control Law | 2/15/1974 | See Source »

...crowd last night was smaller and quieter than the one that gathered in the council's chambers at City Hall Monday night. At that meeting, the council rejected a motion to abolish controls entirely made by Councillor Thomas W. Danehy. Danehy, as well as Councillors Daniel J. Clinton and Saundra Graham, did not attend last night...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: Councillors Meet With Citizens To Discuss Rent Control Law | 2/15/1974 | See Source »

...separated, preplotted targets. Some Soviet missiles in operation then also had multiple warheads, but they were not independently targeted. When fired, they sprayed from the missile launcher along a straight line like pellets from a shotgun. In addition, though the Soviets had more missile-firing submarines, U.S. subs were quieter, making them harder to detect, and many of the American SLBMS carried from ten to 14 warheads each. As a further deterrent, the U.S. maintained three times as many long-range bombers as Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Arming to Disarm in the Age of Detente | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

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