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Perhaps the grim story of chemical poisoning will finally bring people to the realization that they are nature and not a kind of mysterious, superior essence placed in nature to make it "better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 13, 1980 | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

Lately, however, the Democrat has also taken to embarrassing many of his constituents. For example, at a NAACP meeting in Baltimore this year, Long, who has a progressive record on civil rights, started rambling on about American blacks being "genetically superior . . . because Southern white blood flows in every black today." All this might not have got Long into trouble if he were not opposed this year by an aggressive Republican, who has a more telling way with words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ships That Pass in the Night | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...strategy starts with a well-baited hooker. Her name is Elene Fontana (nee Abigail Asnani), a 23-year-old Jewish courtesan who-after the characteristic Follett sexual intermezzos-rises quickly to become the star of the Wolff hunt. One of Vandam's problems is his toffee-nosed superior, Lieut. Colonel Reggie Bogge, who spends most of his time polishing a precious cricket ball and refusing to accept his subordinate's theory of the spy's existence. Vandam's pursuit is also thwarted by the Egyptian nationalist movement, which would prefer a German occupation to continued British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nile Wiles | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

Despite the lopsided scores, overall the meet was a "positive experience because UMass had run superior times to us before the race but we knocked the hell out of them--we beat them almost as bad as Providence beat us," Harvard coach Bill McCurdy said...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Crimson Harriers Top UMass, 17-46, Fall to Providence Powerhouse, 15-49 | 9/24/1980 | See Source »

Most Canadians recognized Trudeau's leadership capacity as superior to Clark's. But Clark presented himself as "of the people," pointed at 11 years of Liberal government, and won the race. There was an "Anderson factor" as well--the socialist New Democratic Party split the vote of the left with the Liberals, putting Clark in power through the back door. Nine months later, Canadians tired of Clark--as the United States might grow weary with Reagan after nine months-and reelected a majority Liberal government after Clark ran an anti-Trudeau campaign...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Glass Half Empty | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

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