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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gains we have made will start to disappear if we don't get the fifth seat," City Councilor and state legislator Graham told the crowd, which gathered in the elegant cafeteria of the city's newly refurbished high school to pick the slate...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: CCA Backs Liberal Slate In Election | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...Finding that first target was the neatest possible thing," Henry says. "It took about five minutes for Einstein to move into position, and sure enough we saw this X-ray source move into the center of the picture, stop in the middle of the screen and start building...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: 'Einstein Observatory' Blasts Off | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...sunny Friday afternoon, thousands of Chicago motorists lucky enough to get off to a fast start on the long Memorial Day weekend streamed out along Interstate 90. Brisk winds rippled the green field between the crowded highway and O'Hare International Airport. Half an hour later, the field was shrouded in black smoke, and firemen held hoses on a flaming aircraft engine. Police and other emergency workers stepped gingerly through scattered and smoldering wreckage, looking for signs of life. They found none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Worst U.S. Air Crash | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Petrovek said the fund is "an incredibly good start...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Biko Fund Creator Urges Total Class Gift Boycott | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...very much" delivered in some unheard-of accent that sounds like south-of-the-border Maltese. Then he dives ahead, attempting another impersonation. Same accent. Same tone. Same delivery. Now the fear hits again, so bad this time that he forgets everything . . . and has to go back to the start of the act. He takes it all from the top. Already accomplice in his fate, the audience becomes part of his misery, both the reason and redemption for it. The man will not stop, either. Finally he bails himself out with a saving, dazzlingly accurate impersonation of Elvis Presley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Laughter from the Toy Chest | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

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