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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second thing to remember: all athletic expenditures--including those for very expensive football and basketball programs--must count in the total pool. So, that means you've got to add it all up--football and hockey and track and field hockey and everything else--and make sure every man and woman athlete gets an equal share...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Lost in the Bureaucratic Sludge | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

While people make up their minds, Title IX remains in limbo. And nobody at HEW knows what will happen. Only one thing is for sure. The combatants, some fear, will never be happy. No regulation, as one Harvard official says, "can possibly address the idiosyncracies of every university." And I thought we knew that before last December...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Lost in the Bureaucratic Sludge | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

...walk each night. One has been gone for four months, off work with a stroke. The altar pleases him; the thought that demonstrators may march on the Common scares him. Graying on the sides like middle-aged cops are supposed to, he worries about the day ahead. "One little thing can set people off," he explains. "You gotta nip it just before it gets out of hand." Another cop, just as Irish as the first, lists the kinds of "maggots" the observer will see. "There will be lots of wallet lifters, and some of the guys who just grab ladies...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A City Awaits A Pope | 10/2/1979 | See Source »

...town heartthrobs fighting overseas, the American interlopers meet with some early but usually temporary setbacks. By the time the movie reaches its climax-an irresistible train station farewell, complete with chorus of I'll Be Seeing You-one is fully convinced that World War II was the best thing to happen to romance since the invention of the waltz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winter of '42 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...wrote Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath, "unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments." His finest novels were proof of that perception. The other works are simply more evidence that some writers were never meant to grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Insecure Laureate | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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