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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conference of Mayors, which periodically brings together some of its members for a three-day immersion in expertise, exhortation and empathy, has shrewdly decided that controlling angst can be as important to a mayor's success as drafting municipal budgets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kentucky: Defiant Mice from City Hall | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...sure were the scientists of the success of the mission that they were already Bopping champagne corks before the actual flyby. "Here's to Saturn," toasted Jniversity of Arizona Planetary Scientist Bradford A. Smith. Added Physicist Torrance Johnson: "And on to Uranus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: It's the Robots' Turn, by Jove! | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Michael Wilding, 66, dapper English actor and second husband of Elizabeth Taylor; after a fall in his home; in Chichester, England. His success during the 1940s and '50s in light comedies (Spring in Park Lane) brought him to Hollywood, where he married Taylor, 19, and, he said, "watched my career turn to ashes." Divorced after five years and two children, Wilding returned briefly to the London stage before becoming a talent agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 23, 1979 | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...seems to promise drive and success and an end to the aimless drifting Carter pathetically describes. If the price for that is a man who may not be personally forthright and trustworthy, we are willing...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Water Under the Bridge | 7/20/1979 | See Source »

...size of some enterprises keep new publications out. The number of small publications is growing and their diversity is dazzling. The really remarkable phenomenon of recent years is not so much the growth of communications companies, but the spread of highly organized special interest groups that have had considerable success in making themselves heard and seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Press, the Courts and the Country | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

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