Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...included a cartoon showing a Catholic bishop clutching a gasoline can to his breast as if it were a Bible; he was on his way to torch an abortion clinic. In 1972 the Xerox Corp. published a booklet directed at elementary and high school students called Population Control: Whose Right to Live? The authors, two independent university professors, implied that Pope Paul VI's teachings on birth control sanctioned the starvation of countless numbers ol people around the world and suggested that Roman Catholic students who disagree with the church on the birth control issue consider bringing charges before...
...vastly relieved President walked from the Oval Office to the Roosevelt Room, where 50 friends and aides toasted him with champagne in celebration of his 55th birthday. He still had enough breath left to blow out the eight candles on his birthday cake. "Eight years!" the celebrators shouted. "All right!" replied an obviously pleased President. (He will formally announce his candidacy for re-election...
...press, the cameras, the organizers have been pouring into Florida to blanket this nonevent, ensuring that at the very least one of the contenders will emerge grinning with "momentum" and the other with an Aesopian disclaimer that the outcome was, after all, meaningless. Probably both, alas, will be right. TIME Correspondent Richard Woodbury reports...
...phones, trying to line up blocs of voters-from elderly residents of condominiums to youthful opponents of nuclear power. The volunteers are fired up with a sense of mission. Said Salesman John Adams: "The whole world is watching. We have a chance to bring big change in the country, right from this county...
That may not be soon enough for the most nationalistic Panamanians, who oppose the provisions that give the U.S. the military right to guarantee the canal's security in perpetuity. Lieut. General Dennis McAuliffe is retiring as commander of the 9,200 U.S. troops who will remain in bases near the canal. As the takeover neared, he expressed concern: "I know they will be coming in here planting little Panamanian flags all over the place. Some will even be planting flowers. I just hope they are not going to be planting rocks...