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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...needed to prepare for his regents exams, which in New York state qualify students for college scholarship aid. His solution was to board with his grandparents in Valley Stream (30 minutes away) and attend the high school there. But to do that the Caponis had to make their son the ward of his grandparents. 'I didn't like the idea of signing over the guardianship papers," says Rae Caponi, Sabato's mother. "It's hard enough when they're 18 and go away to college." Sabato makes it home on weekends but rarely on week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Long Island: The Lost Season | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Last week, after five years of a far from stable marriage, Chip Carter, 28, the President's second son, and his wife, Caron, 27, separated. Caron went back to her parents in Hawkinsville, Ga., with their 20-month-old son James Earl Carter IV. Chip remained at the White House, where the couple had been living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Chip off the Old Block | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...Iran with his people. He does not believe that he is finished, not even close to it. Despite the disappointments and the brutal punishment he has taken in the streets, he feels it is his duty to protect the throne and thus his country. He believes one day his son, Crown Prince Reza, 18, will ascend the throne. But not now, not even under a regency council. The Shah wants his heir to have a viable monarchy, not a weak one. As for talk about a constitutional monarchy, the Shah believes Iran already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Shah Is Not Giving Up | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...planet Krypton is about to explode, and Superman's father Jor-El (Brando) sends his infant son in a spaceship to the distant earth. His touchdown nearly kills a Midwest farm couple, the Kents, as they are driving through wheatfields in their truck. Because little Superman has a denser molecular structure, he shows his powers at once. His landing has blown one of the Rents' tires, and the superboy helps out his new, adoptive father by lifting up the whole rear of the rig for the wheel change. At school, Clark, as he is called, can kick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Here Comes Superman!!! | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...resonance of a schoolgirl's field hockey stick. Her sample "letter of apology for having seriously offended someone" sounds a little like W.C. Fields: "Dear Hank, There is no way I can erase the tragic error of my bumbling tongue." So with a letter to a colleague about a son who has just won a scholarship to Yale: "You and your wife must be bursting forth with unmitigated but understandable pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's New Manners | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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