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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subtler. His body will become nore harmonized, his voice more musical. The average hu man type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe a Marx. Looking back over 60 years of the Russian Revolution, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev last week pronounced the stupendous enterprise a success: "Comrades, no event in world history has had such a profound and lasting effect on mankind as the great October Socialist Revolution."* Listening to Brezhnev's grandiloquence was an audience that included Socialist and Communist leaders from all over the world who had gathered in Moscow to do homage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Russian Revolution Turns 60 | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...Canadian-born bandleader who for 48 years ushered in the New Year with "the sweetest music this side of heaven"; in Houston. When he was twelve, Lombardo recruited his brothers Carmen and Lebert for a small band that played for dances in London, Ont. After a so-so success, they were invited to play at an Elks' convention in Cleveland and stayed on in the U.S. Billed as Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, the group developed a smoothly distinctive sound that was heard coast to coast on radio, sold over 100 million records and introduced some 600 hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 14, 1977 | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

Last season, after Cowens took a mid-year leave-of-absence, the Celtics struggled through 30 games at almost .500. Some said that the team's ability to win without Cowens showed that the center with an 18.8-point career scoring average is not so crucial to Boston's success. But that was just Celtic optimism. In reality, .500 basketball will get Boston nowhere fast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cowens Says Celtics' Slump Is Just Temporary | 11/9/1977 | See Source »

...contest against B.U., freshman halfback Gia Johnson played her usual steady game. A player who traps, passes, and shoots with skill, Johnson is a big factor in the women's soccer team's success this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women's Soccer Weathers B.U. 4-1 | 11/8/1977 | See Source »

There is something basically unpatriotic about F. Scott Fitzgerald's contention that American lives have no second acts. The tainted blessing of early success ("the victor belongs to the spoils") and a guilty sense that character is fate may have accounted for his bitter judgment. But the fact remains that the world's best-advertised nation of immigrants was built on second-even third and fourth-acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reds to Riches | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

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