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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. He invented prototypes of the submarine, the diving mask and snorkel, the airplane, the parachute, the tank and the hydraulic screw. What he did not invent, as the opening segment of CBS's five-part Life of Leonardo da Vinci amply illustrated this week, was a way of having his own story told well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Dubbed Genius | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

Cotton's electric influences have far from absorbed the band's other styles. Poco has long included an acoustic segment in their shows, pickin' their way through "You Are the One," "Honky-Tonk Downstairs," and their medley of "Hard Luck," "Child's Claim to Fame," and "Pickin' up the Pieces." The acoustic songs, particularly "Honky-Tonk Downstairs," retain much more country feeling than the electric music. These songs are Rusty Young's, and he acknowledges his pedal steel predecessors with some of the purest country steel guitar outside Nashville on "Honky-Tonk," and his own instrumental "Grand Junction," with...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: Child's Claim to Fame | 8/15/1972 | See Source »

There are 75 full-time workers supervising the nationwide Nixon youth effort. Though Brock and other campaign officials have refused to admit just how much is being spent on the grassroots registration drive, they concede that it is "far and away" better-financed than any other segment of the overall Nixon campaign. Nixon is following the effort closely and, in a recent conference with Clark MacGregor, chairman of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, sought reassurance that the figure of 125,000 field workers was not inflated. Indeed not, said MacGregor, adding that he expected a minimum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Wooing the Youth Vote | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

...chemical formula for polychlorinated biphenyl. There were five separate items on the proper reading of difficult Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese language. Next, candidates had to translate into Japanese newspaper articles in one of five languages: English, French, German, Chinese or Russian. Finally, a composition segment called for a concise news article on "my student life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Job Seeking in Japan | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

...There should be no attempt to impose a standard of genetic normality on any segment of the population. Virtually everyone carries a small number of harmful recessive genes. To eliminate these from the gene pool might require partners who both have similar "bad" traits to avoid parenthood entirely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Right to Bad Genes | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

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