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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the athletic paraphernalia, the club's most prized asset may be its library, a 25,000-volume, six-room affair with a large rare-book collection and the largest collection of Harvardiana outside of Cambridge...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The New York Harvard Club: | 1/3/1979 | See Source »

...three Dutch Reformed churches, two are relatively small (combined membership: 338,000). Ironically, the one with the more liberal theology takes the hardest line on race, while the more doctrinally conservative church has a group of members who signed last year's Koinonia Declaration, a rare Christian Afrikaner protest against South African racial policies. By far the most important of the three churches is the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk, or N.G. Church, which is often sarcastically called "the National Party at prayer." It claims the allegiance of 1.5 million of the nation's 2.5 million Afrikaners, including Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: White Theology's Last Bastion | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Wings. In one of her rare American appearances, Constance Cummings gave one of the best performances of the year as the victim of a stroke, imprisoned in the Gulag of her own fragile body. Those who missed her in the play's too-short run at the Public Theater will have a second chance early next year, when Wings alights on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: YEAR'S BEST | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Ballroom. While it beats, the heart defies time. Dappled by the shimmering lights of the Stardust Ballroom, the couples whom Director-Choreographer Michael Bennett sends swirling across its floor are cradled in hopes and dreams unmocked by middle age. An entrancing musical with a rare grace note of affection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: YEAR'S BEST | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...whole, which is footed by the U.S. Government, totals $1 billion a year. By contrast, the tab for a CAPD patient is only about $8,000 a year, and is likely to drop as the technique becomes more popular. Says Nolph: "We have here one of those rare circumstances in modern times where something is not only potentially better, but cheaper. That combination doesn't happen very often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Body May Be Best | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

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