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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...account, Richard Nixon spent the week in San Clemente deeply immersed in foreign and domestic affairs. He signed a bevy of bills passed by Congress, among them one appropriating $73.7 billion for the Defense Department and another boosting Social Security benefits by 11%. He labored with Chief Speechwriter Ray Price on the State of the Union message to be delivered to Congress later this month. He summoned Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to discuss the Middle East and Viet Nam. Afterward, Kissinger held a press conference to deny published reports that he, not the President, is in control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CRISIS: No Respite in the Western White House | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

Schmitt pioneered the use of X-ray diffraction and polarization optics to explore the inner workings of cells, and studied molecular biology before the term was invented. Head of the team that was first in the U.S. to use an electron microscope for studying biological tissues, he is also well known for his work on collagen, the clear protein material that fills the spaces between cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Impresario of the Brain | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

With three minutes left to play, Penn's Ray Lalonde was called for hooking, and Dagdigian scored on a rebound to insure a Harvard victory. Senior Levy Byrd, skating on the power play for the first time, and junior Randy Roth assisted on the final goal...

Author: By E.p. Eggert, | Title: Harvard Wins One, Losses One Against Quakers | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...opportunity to do a zany turn as a toddler set loose in the operating room where he has been revived. Later, he discovers that all the servants in his cowardly new world are robots (the ones assigned to homosexuals even lisp). To escape from the security police (whose ray gun, incidentally, is always blowing up on them, the spirit of the CIA being immortal), he disguises himself as one of the robots. This bit becomes especially hilarious when his owner (the admirable Diane Keaton) returns him to the factory in order to have a new and more pleasing head installed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: 2173 and All That | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...this girl from a mining town in the West find happiness as the wife of a wealthy and titled Englishman?" Answer: No-five afternoons a week. Backstage Wife followed the fortunes of an unassuming lady, Mary Noble, married to a matinee idol-a situation so potent that Bob and Ray's parasitic satire, Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife, has outlived its host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Radio: The Coliseum of Nostalgia | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

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