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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says another: "There's a sort of cavalier attitude that everyone's expendable." A former secretary of the Army says of Walker's plight: "It's just unthinkable." Walker quotes even Rogers as confessing to him, "It's incomprehensible." Rogers was so upset that he briefly considered handing in his own resignation in protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Case of the Fallen Star | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...gone off and went to knock on the bedroom door. Receiving no answer, he entered and found John Paul propped up on pillows in a half-sitting position, with a reading lamp still on and Thomas a Kempis' Imitation of Christ open beside him. His face bore the sort of smile that had already earned him around the world the appellation "the smiling Pope," as if to suggest that he had effortlessly slipped into eternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: The September Pope | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...power to keep prices high. While the Norwegians emphasized that they had no intention of joining OPEC, Energy Minister Bjartmar Gjerde acknowledged the interest of his country in "prolonging" the benefits it has been getting from its North Sea reserves and noted that Norwegians are beginning to feel "sort of in between" the industrial world and the oil exporters. It may only be a matter of time before Norway and other in-between nations form a group that will remain out of the cartel but "consult" with OPEC on prices and other oil matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Costlier Oil | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...mother's lesbian affairs and his father's homosexual proclivities, schooled American readers in the eccentric love lives of the English aristocracy. Nicolson's mother, Vita Sackville-West, belonged to one of England's most venerable families; Knole, their fabled ancestral home, sheltered the sort of elaborate sexual and emotional transactions fashionable among the Bloomsbury set. But the Victorian era boasted its own dramas of unlikely passion: Vita's mother, Lady Victoria Sackville, was herself the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish dancer and a Sackville heir. Courted by President Chester A. Arthur and J.P. Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victoriana | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

Mail tampering of this sort is punishable by a $2000 fine or five years imprisonment or both, according to U.S. Code Title 18, Section...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: Mather House Hit By Mail Tamperer | 10/7/1978 | See Source »

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