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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...learning generation," and explains wisdom for Golden, my who wrote this week's cover story on the new wave of interest in Einstein as followers celebrate the centennial of his birth. "He is the scientist of our age, but he is also remembered for his humanity, his personal style and his political and social thinking. You might say he is a figure for all of space and time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 19, 1979 | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

Then, starting in 1974, development began and tourism took hold. Affluent Northerners, attracted by the 77° average temperatures and the quaintness of the island, with its Spanish and Bahamian roots, bought up and restored many of the Conch-style cottages and rambling homes in the Old Town section. Prices there tripled in three years. The shops along drowsy and all-but-derelict Duval Street were renovated and transformed; the old Kress dime store became Fast Buck Freddie's, a trendy shoppe. Five hundred new hotel and motel units were built, with 450 more plus a convention center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Key West: The Last Resort | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

Then wait, and be ready for mystery; one U.S. executive corresponded for years with a Chinese official who signed himself, Get Smart-style, as M 903. A breakthrough can come when least expected. An American businessman was sitting in a dentist's chair in Hong Kong having a tooth drilled, when a messenger rushed in with news that a Chinese official whom he had been trying to get an appointment with for weeks wanted to meet him in the street immediately. Once invited to Peking, rule No. 1 is never go alone. The Chinese will ask more, and more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: How to Dicker with the Chinese | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

What has aroused Einsteinophiles especially is a 12-ft.-high bronze statue of the physicist that will be unveiled in April by the National Academy of Sciences on Washington's Constitution Avenue. Critics have attacked Sculptor Robert Berks for his "bubble gum" style, the astrological connotation of the star-studded base and the statue's cost (at least $1.6 million). Others insist that no statue could really be appropriate; Einstein, after all, was so opposed to posthumous veneration that he willed his ashes to be scattered at an undisclosed place. Constantly called upon to pose for photographers, painters and sculptors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: The Year of Dr. Einstein | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

Atkinson went out in style Saturday, leaving coach Bernal drooling over his 1000-yd. freestyle performance. His time of 9:39.30 ranks him as the fifth-best 1000-man in Harvard history...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: CornellSunk, 66-45; Swimmers Now 8-0 | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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