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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aide watching the normally mild-mannered Glenn said later: "His lips were blue they were so tight. If I know my man, that's just going to steel his determination to insist on his view of adequate verification." If so, Rosalynn Carter's rebuke may have been a serious blunder because Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, is emerging as a substantial figure in the SALT debate. His fierce feelings about the important issue of verification might turn him against the treaty, despite his basic support for arms control. This would be a serious blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Some Pepper for SALT | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...characters, says Cimino, "are trying to support each other. They are not endorsing any thing except their common humanity -their common frailty, their need for each other." Although it may be reading the film too much as allegory, the ending, with the survivors back in their shab by Pennsylvania steel town, sitting around a table and softly singing God Bless Amer ica, has the effect of being an absolution, a subtle exoneration of the American role in Viet Nam. Cimino might have intended the scene more as an exoneration of the men who were called on to fight there than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Viet Nam Comes Home | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...added concessions made to protect some industries from tariff cuts, including steel, textiles and clothing, may hurt the effectiveness of the pact...

Author: By Daniel A. Carroll, | Title: Twenty-One Countries Sign Agreement to Lower Tariffs | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

...sitting in my brand-new Butler building surrounded by steel of high quality folded at ninety degree angles. The only thing prettier than ladies as an I-beam painted bright yellow. I told 'em I wanted a big door. A big door in front where a girl could hide her car if she wanted to evade the gaze of her husband the rat poison salesman. You ever been out with a ratpoison salesman? They are fine fellows with little red eyes...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Not-So-Great Days | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

...goes on to discuss "welded-steel four-thousand pound artichokes" and sings a chorus about "poppin" Darvon and mothballs" and "sleepin' on paper towels and drinkin...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Not-So-Great Days | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

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