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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ferzoco points to a row of children's photographs lining the top of her desk. Picking out one of three smiling, hand someblond children, she says, "These were all from the same mother. The youngest was only six weeks old when I got a call from the hospital. The mother brought it in because it wouldn't stop crying." The child had a broken collar bone, and when the doctor examined it further, he found several other partially healed fractures. "Only six weeks old and she'd done that already," Ferzoco says. "We finally took the baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: A Hot Line to Tragedy | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...Governor, Butcher resigned as chairman of the United American Bank of Knoxville, which is the largest bank in the chain. He owns one-fourth of the bank's stock. For the first six months of this year, U.A.B.'s earnings were down by 52%, but the bank nonetheless increased its dividend from 160 to 180 a share. Other bankers suggest that the move was chiefly intended to increase Butcher's income, but he says he had nothing to do with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Jake Butcher: Another Lance? | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...record is not a fair measure of his effectiveness. Had he shown up more often, says Levin, "he would have voted the wrong way anyway." Campaigning for Levin, Vice President Walter Mondale told voters they need "two Senators who want to be there, who are planning on working for six years, who are excited about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Griffin's Gaffe | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...They've been like alligators lying on a river bank." The poll shows Percy actually behind Seith in traditionally Republican counties downstate and running only a few points ahead in heavily Republican DuPage County, a Chicago suburb he swept by a margin of 50 percentage points six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Percy's Problem | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...were contaminating the food or that you ought to pop out of a cake. It's not like you're one of the boys; you feel like a hunk of meat." Louisiana Democrat Lindy Boggs succeeded her late husband in Congress, but to keep the seat for the past six years, she has had to win acceptance as one of the regulars at places like the Half Moon oyster house and Parasol's Bar, where politics is played in New Orleans' Italian and Irish neighborhoods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Is a Woman's Place in the House? | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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