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Over the next thirteen years Rather seemed to turn up everywhere the news was biggest or the danger worst. He covered civil-rights violence throughout the South. He was in Dallas almost by accident on Nov. 22, 1963, and he coordinated nearly four days of the Kennedy assassination coverage from the scene. CBS rewarded him with the job of White House correspondent in the new L.B.J. Administration, then offered him the plum of a foreign assignment. With London as his base, Rather soon found himself dodging shells on the India-Pakistan border, watching the beginnings of a civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Houston Hurricane | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...full-time committment "might have missed the point." Danby, who is studying Sanskrit, Hebrew, and Arabic, and plans to represent the church in India, added that, "As Christians, we have a responsibility to evangalize...Taking a conventional job is not going to go much towards that." Of the thirteen HRCF members who attended Urbana, many returned with new perspectives on missionary work, but none compared with Danby's uncompromising interpretation of the conference's message...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Answering the Lord's Call | 2/13/1980 | See Source »

...During a thirteen-year period (1966-78). I spent a cumulative nine years in former French Africa as a planner and manager of many development projects, employed by both public and private organizations. In its relatively rigid economic approach to the problems of development, HIID has been, for the past few years, viewed by many of my colleagues and myself as unfortunately disappointing in its contribution to professional thinking while understanding and conceptions elsewhere expanded regarding what are the critical components of the development process--only some of which are economic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harberger's Record | 2/6/1980 | See Source »

...friend added that the Swift family thinks the Iranians did not release Swift because a news organization unofficially listed her as a hostage shortly after the militants decided to free the blacks and women. Thirteen of the 62 hostages returned to the United States late last week...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Iranian Students Hold Alumna Hostage; U. S. Confirms Her Status at Embassy | 11/28/1979 | See Source »

...legs. It was wonderful." Others lift weights simply because they want to look better. Says Pete Grymkowski, owner of Gold's and currently Mr. World: "There's that Raquel Welch image they'd like: wide shoulders, slim waists and hips, firm and high breasts." Thirteen years of body building certainly have paid off for Christine Zane. Like Bentley, who dropped from 140 to 108 Ibs., Christine changed drastically: her shoulders got wider and she trimmed inches off her hips. Says she: "I always had a weight problem before I started training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Pumping Iron, Chapter II | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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