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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston Harbor Islands--Mass Audobon Society shows you nature at its finest (?) on the harbor islands, or what's left of them. Saturday tour, call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ODDS | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

...reason is that while a tour in Africa is hardship duty, the odds are still good that a young Cuban will survive the experience. So far the number of Cuban soldiers who have died in Africa is relatively small. The exact statistics are secret, but a top Cuban official says that those killed number "only in the hundreds." Knowledgeable Western sources put the figure at 1,000 or slightly more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Comrade Fidel Wants You | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...meantime, a second delegation of Chinese military men was ending a twelve-day tour of Sweden's defense facilities. There they had looked at, among other things, Swedish-built submarines and the Saab-Scania supersonic Viggen fighter jet. This week the delegation heads southward to see what Italian manufacturers offer in the way of land, air and sea weaponry. A similar delegation of Chinese experts visited France last autumn to inspect materiel there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Arms Shopping in the West | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

People obviously open up to Howard, sometimes at their peril. Count the bodies garroted with their own jargon in her previous book Please Touch: A Guided Tour of the Human Potential Movement (1970). Her new work is a tour of the most human of all movements, the family. She visits dozens of them around the country: a matriarchal black clan in Indiana, a tribe of patriarchal Greeks in Massachusetts, a conglomerate of patricians in Manhattan. There are Jewish families dispersed in the South and Midwest, farm families plowed over by vast interstate highway systems, single-parent families, and homes where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Attachments | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

After leaving Harvard in 1938 with a degree in Chinese language and history and a traveling fellowship, Teddy White made his way to Chungking, Chiang Kai-shek's mountain-girt wartime capital. There White began reporting for TIME, and in 1940 the magazine sent him on a tour of Southeast Asia that eventually took him to Manila and to a man who was then an outcast from power or influence, but not for long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of History | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

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