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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fran was overwhelmed by the response. Declared she: "The people of Beatty are just the nicest people I've ever met in my life." Until the Star Ranch is rebuilt, the Madam of Beatty is conducting business as usual in two house trailers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: All in a Good Night's Work | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

While their comrades were seizing the chancellery, another group of students was breaking into the heavily secured consulate section, which had just been rebuilt (at a cost of $500,000) to speed up the issuance of visas for thousands of Iranians seeking to go to the U.S. One irony of the situation was that in recent weeks the crowds of Iranians around the embassy had been there to try and get visas to the U.S. Noted the English-language Tehran Times: "Despite the public denunciations, the U.S. embassy has often presented the spectacle of being mobbed one day by visa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blackmailing the U.S. | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...White, who spent $1.5 million on his campaign, apparently persuaded most of the city's voters that Boston had turned a corner in the last four years, away from racial troubles and a decaying inner city and towards a vibrant, rebuilt future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: White, Ward by Ward, Storms Boston | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

According to Isaacs, State Senator William Kirchner, 63, told him that he would kill himself if his name were printed. "He said that he's bought a hose and that he planned to attach it to his car in his garage, but that his garage was being rebuilt," said Isaacs. "He then asked if he could use my garage." Kirchner later admitted that the revelations about him were true, though "negative and vicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Johns on Parade | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Then there's the Harvard football team. Like my car, it has been (quarter) backfiring. It's offense has had to be rebuilt every time it's used because of signal caller injuries. Last week Burke St. John came back and the offense looked well-oiled to start the game but it needed a valve...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Of Machines and Alumni | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

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