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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Zones of peace, freedom and respect for human rights are quickly shrinking on the world's map [March 5]. One can only say it is "Carterstrophic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1979 | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...claim that James Michael Curley may have won the mayoral election of 1921 over his fellow Catholic John R. Murphy by accusing Murphy of eating a roast-beef sandwich on a Friday. As Murphy's grandson, I can say that you have much underestimated Curley's genius for political skulduggery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1979 | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...Nope," says Pell. "The only guy I ran into who was talking politics was a fellow who sat next to me in the sauna." What did he say? "He said Phi Crane is really rollin'." Anything more? "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Here We Go Again | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

CLEVELAND--"Cleveland?" my friends say as if I had just suggested a canoe trip in the Cambridge sewer system. "What in the world would you want to waste a week there for? All they have there are steel plants and lousy teams...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Scoring in Cleveland | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

There is not much to say, it would seem, for a state whose main contributions to the national culture are seamy politicians, country music, Astroturf, the Dallas Cowboys, and the Dallas Cowgirls--who are of course, the Dallas Cowboys' female cheerleaders, and the first wave of jiggle video to hit the screens of Omaha. And oil and gas. Still, not much reason for Texans to strut quite so much, or talk quite so loud. But residents of Texas, that bizarre man-child of a nation-state on the Gulf, are notorious bitter-enders--examples of mindless Thermopylae-like heroism stud...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Why Are We in Texas? | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

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