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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bundy owned a Volkswagen, and he took it with him when he transferred in 1974 to the University of Utah law school. The Washington killings stopped, and a similar series soon began in Utah. But the police had little to connect Bundy with any of them until the summer of 1975, when he was arrested and later charged with kidnaping Carol DaRonch, 17, from a shopping center in the Salt Lake City area. Bundy was convicted and sentenced to one to 15 years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Case of the Chi Omega Killer | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...first time that ambition had outrun technology. In the Antarctic summer of 1911-12, ten men reached the South Pole, and five returned. They used only the most primitive of tools and energy sources-snowshoes, dog sleds, their own muscles. Once the pole had been attained, it was abandoned for nearly half a century. And then, in the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year, men came back with all the resources of modern technology. Aircraft and snow cats carried the new explorers swiftly and safely over the frozen hell where Robert Falcon Scott perished with his companions. For 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Best Is Yet to Come | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

Much of the trip for Kissinger was an exercise in nostalgia. When he dined with Anwar Sadat on the lawn of the Mamura guesthouse in Alexandria, the table was set up on the spot where they initialed the second Sinai disengagement agreement in late summer 1975. Said an obviously moved Kissinger: "We sat in the same positions. I was almost overcome with memories. One thing I did in public life which made a difference was to work with Sadat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: More Travels with Henry | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...aspect of Meatballs is that it plays against his strengths. His combination of brashness and tenderness would work perfectly in a romantic comedy, something along the lines of Foul Play. Instead, Murray has tried to emulate Belushi: Meatballs is an Animal House ripoff, transplanted from the campus to a summer camp. The film demands that its star be wild and gross-characteristics for which Murray has no great affinity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Animal Bunk | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

Some are less optimistic. "I doubt if any of the pieces will fall on me but I plan on staying in when it is about to re-enter," Johg Rho, a Summer School student, said yesterday...

Author: By Gary G. Curtis, | Title: Skylab's Orbit Crosses Boston Area Tomorrow | 7/10/1979 | See Source »

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