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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Owen Kiernan's greeting to the nation's high school leaders echoes the commencement speaker's standard text. What the young "leaders of tomorrow" are never told is what happens when they confront the leaders of today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1979 | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...other proxy action the Corporation abstained on a resolution that would limit Standard Oil's and Mobil's sales to South Africa and voted against a resolution requiring Caterpillar Tractor Company to establish a special committee to review its practices in Sought Africa--as the ACSR suggested...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: It Takes Two To Proxy | 4/28/1979 | See Source »

...recent movies against Monday Night Football, this effluence of jazz activity will force some hard and painful decisions. Close to home, Jonathan Swift's is hosting two events of particular interest this week. Sunday and Monday they will present Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra, a happening by any standard. Sun Ra is simply outrageous; his age and background are unclear, but he wanders around our planet saying things like: The intergalactic music in its present phase of presentation will be correlative to the key synopsis of the past and to the uncharted multipotential planes outside the bounds...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Uncharted Multipotential Planes | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

Only a couple of performances rise above the standard set by the leads. Shirley Wilber's embodiment of Juliet's Nurse seems on another plane from everything else in this production: smooth and completely in control of every nuance of Shakespeare's verse. Her discovery of Juliet's feigned death is the only moment of convincing grief in the whole show...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Wherefore Art? | 4/25/1979 | See Source »

...real estate, on the theory that the collapse of large cities would accelerate the flight of middle-class and prosperous whites from urban areas. Investors should start stockpiling a year's supply of food to get them through the first calamitous period, along with spare auto parts and standard ammunition; the latter can be used for both barter and self-protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Profit of Doom | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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