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Council officers blame the University. University officials blame the Council. Meanwhile, Melendez spends his weekday afternoons in the basement of Canaday Hall, performing secretarial duties and earning one twelfth of the Council's annual budget...
...India; it has wooed the moderate gulf states and also convinced the Palestine Liberation Organization that Peking alone understands its plight. Most important of all, China seems close to recovering sovereignty over the British colony of Hong Kong on its own terms. Last week, while visiting Peking for the twelfth round of talks, Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe became the first British official to concede publicly that Britain will return the colony to China when its lease over the New Territories expires...
This week's cover story about the new sexual conservatism is noteworthy for more than its examination of changing American mores. It marks another appearance (the twelfth, to be exact) in TIME'S pages of Ralph and Wanda, those conjugal commentators on the foibles and follies of our culture. Their scrappy discussion of the return to high monogamy in the U.S. accompanies and artfully augments the main narrative...
What all this was was the twelfth annual National Inventors Conference, sponsored by the Patent and Trademark Office, the National Council of Patent Law Associations, and the Bureau of National Affairs. It was held in one of those futuristic hotels-the Marriott Crystal Gateway-and in the Patent and Trademark building. Seventy of the nation's inventors paid $75 apiece to attend workshops (Inventing in Today's World, Funding a New Idea) and to take part in an exposition of inventions. A touching sidelight was a tour of the patent offices...
...both talent and dreams. The top rank is tough to crack, for the edge always goes to the headliners. Tiffany Chin, who at 16 was competing brilliantly in her first Olympics, could bask in a strong showing while cheerfully accepting the virtual impossibility of a medal. She had finished twelfth in the compulsory figures, and even with a runaway victory in the free skating while others faltered badly, a silver medal was the best she could have won. Said Chin: "I skated good figures, but the other skaters ahead of me were all established with the judges. This...