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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GEORGE MCGOVERN presidency would shake the Pentagon to its subterranean fallout shelters. He has proposed a $32 billion slash in the defense budget within three years and spelled out precisely how he would achieve it (see chart, next page). As he defended that position before a Joint Economic Committee hearing on Capitol Hill last week, it was apparent that arms is the area in which McGovern has been most specific and will not waffle. To support his point that national security is threatened less from abroad than by "the deterioration of our society from within," McGovern quoted President Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Defense: Pulling Back | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...station and its "innovative" programming were mixed. But Robert G. Gardner '48, lecturer on Visual Studies and a member of BBI's board of directors, says that many changes are still in planning, which limits the accuracy of Boston reviews. "The first two months have been primarily to shake down the new station and the personnel," Gardner said...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: The Herald-Traveler Goes Under; Harvard Faces Emerge on WCVB | 6/15/1972 | See Source »

...visits to Iran and Poland were inevitably anticlimactic. The Nixon party was received by some 500,000 cheering, flag-waving spectators in Teheran, and a smaller but animated crowd in Warsaw. For the first time on his trip, Nixon got out of his car in Warsaw to shake hands with onlookers. The Polish people responded by surging around him and singing "Sto Lat, Sto Lat," from the song May You Live to Be a Hundred. In Iran, Nixon conferred with Shah Reza Pahlevi, attended an elaborate white-tie dinner in the Niavaran Palace-and was far from three exploding bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Moment to Be Seized | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

...want to give up the papacy." Apparently it was felt that so bald an avowal gave too much recognition to the possibility of retirement. The Vatican has just released a tape of the wistful words Paul really uttered: "It would be beautiful to be able to shake off the burden of the church and say I do not want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 12, 1972 | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

...only is the equality of competition dying: a lot of the sportsmanship has disappeared, too. After the hockey game at New Heaven last February. Harvard coach Bill Cleary wouldn't allow his players to shake hands with their Yale opponents because he feared another outbreak of the fighting that had marred the entire contest...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Powers of the Press | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

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