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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Editorialized Paris' right-of-center Le Figaro: "U.S. influence has shrunk in all directions. It has lost Angola, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Yemen, Afghanistan, Laos, Cambodia and most recently a kingpin in Iran, guardian of the Gulfs oil... the Yankee umbrella has more and more holes in it. The free world now asks itself the question: Must it still count on Americans?" London's Daily Telegraph was no kinder: "There is a nervelessness at the center in Washington coupled with clumsiness at the extremities. Hence the alarming loss of respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter: Black and Blue | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...planned, the fund drive's large umbrella will cover not only the College Fund but all of the University's half-dozen "mini-drives" as well, excepting the campaigns for the Busch-Reisinger Museum and the Villa I Tatti, Harvard's center for Renaissance studies in Florence, neither of which appeal to traditional Harvard contributors. The mini-drives" were the mainstay of University capital fundraising throughout the '70s and effectively focused donors' attentions on specific problems--but the College's basic needs did not receive their "due attention," Reardon says...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Big Fund Drive: Arming for the Future | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Thatcher was reflecting growing resentment in the British electorate that has at times flared into violence. Picketing truck drivers were assaulted at a chocolate factory in Birmingham last week by a phalanx of umbrella-wielding female workers. At an oil depot in Aberdeen, a striker was accidentally run over and killed when a truck driver refused to halt for pickets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Union Fever | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...have our American Chamberlain. Only the umbrella was missing. Philip L. Walsh Kingston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1979 | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...Modernist tradition) appears in their work, it is quoted rather than adhered to. There is no common style. Above all, they have no uniting ideology, as the Bauhaus or, on a less exalted level, the corporate American architects of the '50s had. Yet they are regularly grouped under one umbrella phrase: Post-Modernism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Their Own Thing | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

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