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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This decline, which comes a year after Law School applications rose by 500, is less than expected, June N. Thompson said, adding that "applications are apparently levelling...

Author: By Peter A. Nitze, | Title: Law School Applicants | 5/10/1977 | See Source »

...spite of the drop in applications, there will be more minority members accepted this year," Thompson said...

Author: By Peter A. Nitze, | Title: Law School Applicants | 5/10/1977 | See Source »

...talk to him, Colson?' 16: 'We have no choice.'"--and Nixon twisting that jowly face of his, looking more and more like what we always though he was best-suited for in life--an insurance agent, or maybe a successful ad account executive for someone like J. Walter Thompson as so many of his assistants were, pushing Colgate and Pringles and J-Wax Kit. That was perhaps the one thing Nixon understood, at least after 1962--that what counted was to sell yourself, to make yourself appear sincere so that it didn't matter what you said or did. Only...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Three More Weeks | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...many as possible, and indeed have turned the potential problem of overcrowding to advantage. The paintings are displayed so that they inform each other; like well-placed guests around a dinner table, they engage naturally in conversation. The juxtaposition of the 1783 Portrait of Benjamin Thompson, by Gainsborough, with Copley's 1788 portrait of two colonels, hung directly below, reveals the English master's direct influence on American painting. The contrast between the gentlemanly rendering of the English officer and the frank force of the American portrait highlights the differing achievements of the two artists. Seymour Slive and Sydney Freedberg...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Old Friends, Well Met | 5/3/1977 | See Source »

...There's no doubt we have a crisis upon us," declared James Thompson, the new Republican Governor of Illinois. "The President is to be congratulated for facing it." Agreed David Roderick, president of U.S. Steel: "He has laid it all on the line. Our industries, our jobs, our American way of life could be in jeopardy." After listening to Carter's Monday "sky is falling" speech, North Carolina's Democratic Governor James B. Hunt Jr. observed: "If anyone has any doubts of a crisis, they must be blind and deaf. That was the most carefully reasoned statement of an immense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE ENERGY WAR | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

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