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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...executive authority. Ronald Reagan, among others, thinks the bill gives labor too much and business too little influence in campaign financing; as a result, he opposes it, even though he badly needs the funds it would release. At week's end President Ford was still pondering whether to sign or veto the bill. The new delay, of course, did nothing to improve his opponent's condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Starving the Candidates | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

...happen, but they had no way of telling precisely where, when or how badly. After the disaster, Professor Raffaele Bendandi of the Faenza Geophysical Laboratory reported that seven or eight days before "the ground in northeastern Italy rose by 7.75 in., according to our instruments. This was a sign that we could expect some sort of tremor." The area along the Tagliamento is earthquake country of a sort. At the Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory in Monteporzio, Scientist Mariacecilia Spadea had already measured 20 or 30 minor shocks there this year. But, she said, "there was no history of severe earthquakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Terror in the Tagliamento Valley | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

Harvard crew coach John Higginson has a sign hanging over the door of his lightweight oarsmen's locker room which reads, "Please don't feed the oarsmen." The sign serves two purposes. First, it reminds the rowers to stay under the prohibitory 160 pound limit and second it keeps the crew sufficiently hungry from race to race that come each weekend the Crimson lights go out and feast on whatever unsuspecting boats come their...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Lightweights Hope to Feast at Sprints | 5/14/1976 | See Source »

Harvard routinely sends applicants a form which allows them to give up the right to view their letters of recommendation. But William R. Fitzsimmons '67, director of admissions, said last week that whether or not applicants sign the waiver, their chances of seeing their recommendations are the same: all students are denied access...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Not All The Files Are Open | 5/14/1976 | See Source »

...crushing its productive spirit. The film opens in a Senate hearing room, where stern politicians are grilling Tunnelvision's creator. The senators want to know why people spend all their time watching this menace, so they admit as evidence a condensed version of a typical day of Tunnelvision from sign-on to sign-off. Rolling the tape, they sit back with the rest of the audience and are drawn under by the new medium's influence...

Author: By Henry Griggs, | Title: A Wasteland | 5/13/1976 | See Source »

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