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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another dustup occurred after Carter, backed by a U.S. Information Agency poll, claimed the U.S. had lost prestige abroad. Ford retorted by noting the recent U.S. sweep of Nobel Prizes. A group of U.S. Nobel prizewinners thereupon attacked Ford. Harvard Chemist George Kistiakowsky spoke for ten Nobel laureates in arguing that Ford had been too stingy with his budget "to encourage the growth of American science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: D-DAY, AND ONLY ONE POLL MATTERS | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...length with TIME about their campaigns, in effect making a final plea to the voters. Aboard Air Force One, between campaign stops, the President chatted with Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart and Correspondents Dean Fischer and Strobe Talbott. While riding in a car from Plains to Albany, Ga., Carter spoke with Gart and Correspondent Stanley Cloud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE CANDIDATES HAVE THE LAST WORD | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

Columbia Law School Dean Michael Sovern, 44, noted the difference between "the advocate leader and the consensus builder," placing Martin Luther King Jr. in the first category. Radcliffe President Matina Horner, 37, spoke of leaders with "power motivation" as opposed to "achievement motivation" or "affiliate motivation," the last being a polite term for "cronyism." Leaders with power motivation, she suggested, are at once the most glamorous and dangerous of the lot, "able to mobilize resources-and also get us into wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: LEADERSHIP: THE BIGGEST ISSUE | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...after all, a predictably mercurial meeting of the Arab League. As long as the television lights were turned on and the TV cameras were running, leaders of 20 Arab states (plus the Palestine Liberation Organization) who gathered at league headquarters in Cairo spoke glowingly of Arab solidarity. Once the switches had been turned off, however, the conferees stopped smiling and disappeared into closeted quarters. There for two days they argued bitterly about the plan to end Lebanon's bloody 18-month civil war that had been agreed on at an Arab summit in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Behind the Scenes, a War About Peace | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...expose, a book called O Congress, Michigan Democratic Representative Don Riegle, 38, spoke disapprovingly of Congressmen ("even elderly members") on the make. "The fact that a member might be married makes no difference at all," clucked Riegle. So the Congressman was understandably distressed last week when the Detroit News unearthed some 1969 taped conversations between the married Riegle (he divorced and remarried in 1972) and someone in his office code-named Dorothy. The tapes, the authenticity of which Riegle does not dispute, describe an "exquisite session" enjoyed by the Congressman and Dorothy. In one conversation, he complains about having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 1, 1976 | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

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