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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tribe in the most powerful federation of tribes in the world. He is a Great Chief." Just as I was saying this, a howling mob armed with cameras burst from the bush. A squaw grabbed Jerry's hand, rushed him to a great iron bird of the sky, and off they fled. The Rendille rolled on the ground, hooting with laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 28, 1979 | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

With one hand lifting up the falling sky, with the other holding up a glinting scimitar, by one lightning stroke he shakes the whole earth." Thus, in language that might have made Mao Tse-tung blush, does one popular song in North Korea stress the godlike omnipotence of President Kim II Sung, 67. As shrewd and tough as he is vainglorious, Kim since 1948 has been the dictator of a belligerent, doctrinaire state that for sheer xenophobia is rivaled only by Albania inside the Communist world. In pursuit of his goal of reuniting the Korean peninsula under his rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH KOREA: Discipline and Devotion | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. -E.B. White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Learning to Live with TV | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...this works, and nothing else in life can ever be so puzzling. If anyone does succeed in explaining it, within my lifetime, I will charter a skywriting airplane, maybe a whole fleet of them, and send them aloft to write one great exclamation point after another, around the whole sky, until all my money runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Celebration of Life | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...look back, especially in baseball," Brown went on, furrowing his sandy eyebrows and looking off at the clouding-over sky. "You can't look at this mistake or that loss and say, well, it could have happened another way. The way we're playing now is the way we were playing last year. We could easily win these next five games, and beat Brandeis...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: What's Wrong, Brownie? | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

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