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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even so, Carter was encouraged by the cheering crowds lined six and seven deep along the road; some people waved signs proclaiming JIMMY, NOT TEDDY. In the Steubenville high school auditorium. Carter shed his coat, mopped his perspiring face and promised that coal production would be tripled by 1995. The windfall-profits tax, he pledged, would amount to $88 billion in revenues, and $75 billion would be spent on coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kennedy: Ready, Set... | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Last week, however, retired East Liverpool Police Captain Chester C. Smith, now 84, came forward with a far different account of Floyd's death. One of six officers who accompanied Purvis that day, Smith was the first to spot Floyd trying to escape. Said Smith: "I knew Purvis couldn't hit him, so I dropped him with two shots from my .32 Winchester rifle." Stunned but not seriously wounded, Floyd sat up and was immediately disarmed by Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Blasting a G-Man Myth | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...idea that culture-fair tests framed by whites will inevitably favor whites is also wrong. In a Japanese language version of the U.S.-conceived Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Japanese youngsters outscored American whites by an average of six points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Return of Arthur Jensen | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...That's when I got the idea to do this." On a clear day, the Befores can see an ideal After: Fonda herself, at 41 a svelte mother of two, scissoring and sitting up. · He brought along a hair dryer to blow out the candles on the six-foot-tall birthday cake. "I wasn't about to blow out 89 candles," said Colonel Harland Sanders, perkily paunchy in his familiar white suit at a Louisville party in his honor. Fifteen years ago Sanders sold the fried chicken business he started in 1956, but he still travels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Richard M. Nixon, in a new introduction to his 1962 Six Crises that adds Watergate as a dismal seventh: "History will justifiably record that my handling of the Watergate crisis was an unmitigated disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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