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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small fraction of the thousands of runaways reported in the city every year. David Hilligiest, believed to be one of the still-unidentified victims, has been missing-and the object of an agonizing search by his parents-for more than two years. "We're hanging on the thread that our son is still alive," says Fred Hilligiest. Of the 5,228 juveniles who took off last year, the police say, only 424, or 8%, remain unaccounted for today, despite the fact that some parents wait for days and even months before reporting that their children are missing. Many, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Runaways: A National Problem | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...late night we spent talking about how he almost married his high school sweetheart (not Susan, whom he met last fall) and that she was the only girl he had ever dated up to that point. At the time, he felt he was "naive." Danny said only a thread of indecision stopped him from going through with it, but it had been better for both of them...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Danny D. Porter | 7/24/1973 | See Source »

...Washington--along with the rest of the country--flounders through another long hot summer, there is one thread that colors almost every conversation. That thread, of course, is the Watergate investigation...

Author: By Paul T. Shoemaker, | Title: The Watergate Hearings: A Bird's Eye View | 7/24/1973 | See Source »

...reason and Marxist exegesis to bear on such unsuspecting material as the ass of Balaam, the quarrel over Job, and Martin Luther's argument with the devil in the bathroom mirror. Ostensibly a hodge-podge of theological quibbles, the book sews its cases in point together with the strong thread of a sophisticated socialist ethics, and a delightful sense of both the fun and sometimes the necessity of playing havoc with the party line...

Author: By Alice VAN Buren, | Title: God, Marx, and the Funnies, or ... Playing Havoc with the Party Line | 7/17/1973 | See Source »

Thomson says that the Nieman program consists of two tracks--one academic, and the other an "extracurricular" series of Nieman luncheons, dinners and beer and cheese seminars which bring the group together and provide a thread of continuity between academia and the world of reporting and public affairs...

Author: By Emily Wheeler, | Title: Stop the Presses | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

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