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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scintallae are obscured by too much pretentious claptrap. Like the Rolling Stones' Their Satanic Majesties' Requests, the Beatles' "Revolution #9," or anything by Led Zeppelin, Public Image suffers from too much unearned self-seriousness. "A man's reach should exceed his grasp," Browning wrote, "or what's a heaven for?" Well, not for rock and roll. Sid Vicious got out in the nick of time...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Rotten Image | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

...deeper into their inventories to make up for it. Last week Texaco, Shell and British Petroleum announced delivery cutbacks to their worldwide customers because of the supply pinch. In the U.S., current stockpiles amount to a 70-day supply for crude. Said Schlesinger to the Senate committee: "As we reach 60 days, one should get quite nervous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Double Jeopardy In Iran | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...decree, saying :hat he wanted to avoid costly litigation. The decree requires him to surrender Starr stock worth more than $600,000 to a court-administered fund that may be distributed to other Starr stockholders and to forgo some payments Starr owed him. The total cost to Buckley could reach $1.4 million, which is unusually stiff for an SEC case. Buckley was also barred from serving as an officer or director of any pubicly owned company for five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Firing Line | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...second observer, the bolts do not seem to strike simultaneously. Rea son: because he is moving away from the bolt in the east, its light takes slightly longer to reach him. Similarly, because he is moving toward the bolt in the west, its light reaches him earlier. Thus what the stationary observer sees as simultaneous lightning strikes, the moving observer sees as a flash in the west followed by one in the east. If, on the other hand, the bolts had struck at different times, it could well have been the moving observer who saw them simultaneously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: The Year of Dr. Einstein | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

Klan revivals are occurring throughout the country. If Duke is as persuasive as he is perverse, he may spread his faith through Winston-Salem. But he is trying to reach the kids informally through the school system. And apart from one or two crackpots, the school board members are good, solid, God-fearing citizens. They don't permit sex education in the schools. It is doubtful they will permit the Klan...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Stalking the Klan | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

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