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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debt-ridden parson, Alger did not have to invent his scenes of poverty. His happy endings may smack blandly of fantasy, but his harsh beginnings have the bite of realism. Like all Alger heroes, Frank Manton is first and last a survivor in a tough world - a world, Alger makes protestingly plain, of child labor, a world in which a wom an working as a seamstress might earn as little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Up from Penury | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

...indiscriminate destruction in residential areas, the other of selective military targets bombed with crosshair precision-come together only when maps of the military targets are laid over maps of the cities and towns of North Viet Nam. Then it is at once evident that many of those targets lay smack in the middle of the most populous metropolitan and suburban areas in the North. The Hanoi thermal power plant, for instance, was only 1,000 yds. from the very center of the city. A main petroleum storage area was only 200 yds. from the Bach Mai hospital. The town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Nixon's Blitz Leads Back to the Table | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

Because Chicago's Midway Airport sits smack in the middle of the city's southwest side, the residents of the neat one-story bungalows that crowd the area long ago learned how to read modulations in the engine noises of approaching aircraft. One afternoon last week, as they waited for their children to return home from school, the largely Polish, Lithuanian and Italian inhabitants of the Chicago Lawn area heard a sound they instantly mistrusted. Recalled Mrs. Pat Kjos: "I was in the basement, and I heard a plane go over. I just knew it was in trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Death at Midway | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

DARTMOUTH PENN -- When Dartmouth men smack their lips over road trips, they don't think much farther west than Skidmore or much farther south than New Haven. But the girls of Sewickly State Teachers College better run better hide because the Big Green Indians are pouring out of the woods into the wilds of Philadelphia Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Bench | 11/25/1972 | See Source »

Clint quickly concludes he has joined up with the wrong side. He rights matters soon enough, even going so far as to drive a locomotive smack through some of Sinola's newest buildings. The set seems to have been constructed solely with this event in mind, looking as it does like something plucked from the window of F.A.O. Schwarz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Child's Play | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

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