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...unpaid hot-line volunteers, ages 16 to 70, must be open-minded and prepared to refer problem cases to doctors and therapists. In New York, the 50 volunteers go through a ten-month training period, during which they are lectured by doctors on sexual behavior and taught counseling techniques. Many hot-line staffers have solved sexual problems of their own and work without pay, as one volunteer explains, "to help others find a healthy approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Hot Information | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...which has been seeking autonomy for Shaba since Zaïre gained its independence from Belgium in 1960, launched a deadly strike on the region from their bases in Marxist-run Angola. In a seesaw battle with the forces of President Mobutu Sese Seko, the Katangese rebels-who variously refer to themselves as les tigres (French for tigers) or camaradas (Portuguese for comrades)-captured the provincial capital of Kolwezi (pop. 100,000). The rebels carried out coldblooded executions, slaughtering at least 100 whites and 300 blacks, before they were driven from the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZAIRE: The Shaba Tigers Return | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...business. On the other hand, if you are going to be so tasteless as to start a movie like this one, it seems silly to try to act discreet once you go to work on it. Maybe the producers were afraid of offending what they would surely refer to as "powerful interests." More likely, though, given their laughably naive notions of just how the rich are different from you and me, they couldn't imagine their lovers acting any differently from some Scarsdale or Beverly Hills pair trying to make a go of a second marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Yachts of Luck | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...atomic energy plant. These days young Paducans spend their time hunting birdies instead of bears. One of the new breed of golfing Paducans is David Paxton, a senior on the Harvard golf team who played some of the most superlative golf of his career this season. His teammates simply refer to him as "Paducah." "Paducah" Paxton took up the game just after dispensing with his swaddling clothes, wielding a sawed-off set of clubs handed to him by his father at the tender age of six. By the age of 13, he was heading out to the golf course early...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The Man From Paducah | 5/16/1978 | See Source »

Local Philadelphia residents refer to the Schuykill River as the "Sure Kill" because of its rampant pollution and acid pH balance. The waterway did indeed mean death for the Pennsylvania and Navy heavyweight crews on Saturday, as Harvard's varsity, J.V. and freshmen murdered them by convincing margins of at least a length...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Heavyweights Streak Past Penn by Nine Seconds | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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