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...relationship. The Brazilians had hoped that Carter's visit would ease tensions-centering on nuclear proliferation and human rights-between the two countries. Carter created another kind of scheduling problem for himself in Paris. Unless he can cash his rain check by early 1978, the President will run smack into France's March elections; the French left might well accuse him of giving an unfair boost to President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and his allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Carter Decides to Stay Home | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...score stood that way until Mike Kennedy made a spectacular 75 yard run late in the game, dodging no less than five Bruins and putting the ball down for the try right smack in the middle of the uprights. With the score deadlocked at 4-4, Walter Herbert had an easy time with the conversion, giving Harvard its only victory...

Author: By Keith Salkowski, | Title: Verdict for Ruggers at Brown: One Win, One Loss, One Tie | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...things that happen to the brain cells when you take drugs and you think about this man that you will never see again because of the not-so-glorious things that drugs are doing to his cells and you think about acquaintances who brag at parties that they shoot smack every weekend. ("Like multiple orgasms," they say, "...you should try it," they say. But they're "not hooked...Oh no!" they say. They tell you they can control their lives so well, hanging in there, later baby, so together, oh yeah, they know they have the strength of character...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Strangers in the Night | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

That dream does not smack of the overly ambitious, now, for the woman whose favorite song comes from "A Star is Born," and begins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shooting For The Stars | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

Therapists use various methods: standard talk techniques, meditation and hypnosis, either with individuals or in mass sessions that sometimes smack of revival meetings. In many cases, the discipline sounds more entrepreneurial than scientific. Ralph Grossi, a Pittsburgh hypnotherapist, travels to ten clinics in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia where he treats some 25 people a week with past-lives therapy at $75 per session. An Arizona couple, Dick and Trenna Sutphen, who say they first met and married thousands of years ago, not only operate group seminars but also market tape recordings enabling patients to treat themselves at home. Typically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Where Were You in 1643? | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

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