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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps much of Parson's work will, like that of so many other scholars, eventually be superseded. Nevertheless, his contribution to the field of sociology and to other disciplines that seek to understand human relations will remain undiminished. The Crimson extends its deepest sympathy to Parsons' family and friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) | 5/18/1979 | See Source »

After waiting nearly 40 years for someone in Washington to do something about their grievance, 50 former residents and descendants peacefully invaded the Harris Neck Wildlife Refuge. They set up tents and vowed to remain until the Government was willing to discuss giving back the land, rebuilding their homes and paying $50 million in damages. Last week a federal judge in Savannah ordered the protesters to leave. When four men refused, they were arrested by federal marshals. As the men were taken away, scores of supporters stood outside the refuge's barbed-wire fence, crying, praying and singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: In the Neck | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...hunting seals, fishing and shrimping, herding reindeer, or raising sheep. Uranium has been found in the south, and zinc is being mined at a site 350 miles north of the Arctic Circle. But Prime Minister Jonathan Motzfeldt, 40, a Lutheran pastor turned politician, says that sealing and fishing will remain the core of Greenland's economy. Says he: "We must look to the sea more than the land for our salvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREENLAND: Here Comes Kal | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...entail a shift in the relationship between the priests of knowledge and the lay public. The expert will have to play a more conscious role as citizen, just as the ordinary American will have to become ever more a student of technical lore. The learned elite will doubtless remain indispensable. Still, the fact that they are exalted over the public should not mean that they are excused from responsibility to it-not unless the Jeffersonian notion of popular self-rule is to be lost by default...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: A New Distrust of the Experts | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...which he is codirector, to raise $20 million for the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He is active in other charities and has finally delegated enough authority to set aside time for regular sessions of swimming and tennis. But the companies remain his passion. A pillow on Carlson's gold-striped sofa reads: "I love this business. Sit down and watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Expanding Along with Carlson | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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