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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beer spoke before a packed hall of about 300 students, admirers and colleagues, some of whom had come as far as a thousand miles to hear the grand finale of Social Sciences 2, "Western Thought and Institutions...

Author: By Jaleh Poorooshasb, | Title: Beer's Soc Sci 2 Comes to a Close With Last Lecture | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

...West and Midwest, the regions where most Mexican grass is consumed, reported they were overwhelmed with requests to test marijuana samples. In Los Angeles, Disc Jockey Jim Ladd urged members of his post-midnight audience to telephone President Carter with their complaints about paraquat; within an hour, almost a thousand Southern California calls flooded into the White House. More than 5,000 marijuana samples were mailed to PharmChem laboratories in Palo Alto, Calif., where 22 new employees have been hired to keep up with the testing demand; last week the lab reported traces of paraquat in 28% of the marijuana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Panic over Paraquat | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...told them of the struggle--how over 3000 members of the Harvard Community had signed petitions for Harvard to get out of South Africa, how several thousand students had rallied the previous weeks supporting withdrawal, and how despite all of these efforts the Harvard Corporation had decided to ignore the demands of their students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tour of the Yard | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...equations that sprang from the mind of Einstein. One irony that might have amused Wilde is that for less than the price of two tickets at Broadway's Eugene O'Neill Theater, one can purchase all of his works in paperback, and enjoy them for a thousand and one nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Oscar on Oscar | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

Norfolk, home of the world's largest naval base, may have launched a thousand ships, but it has never christened much, in the way of the arts. The city (pop. 330,000) lacks the colonial quaintness of nearby Williamsburg, the antebellum allure of Savannah or Charleston's successful new Spoleto Festival. But in 1975, Norfolk acquired some culture: the Virginia Opera Association. The founders were a group of wealthy, energetic women who took over the old 1,800-seat Center Theater, a concrete WPA-era pile blessed only with good acoustics. They pushed ticket sales hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Queen Mary in Virginia | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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