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During the 2½ years Brown and Duncan worked together at the Pentagon, says one senior staffer with only slight exaggeration, Brown and Duncan became "fully interchangeable parts." Duncan, 52, had areas of special responsibility: the politically sensitive matter of "base realignments," the Defense Department's euphemism for shutting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Engineer for Energy | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

The zealousness of the pro-life groups stems in part from frustration. Despite their smashing legislative victories, the number of legal abortions in the U.S. has increased steadily, from 899,000 in 1974 to about 1.3 million in 1977. Further, a study by the U.S. Center for Disease Control in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Fanatical Abortion Fight | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Dramatic and horrifying though their plight may be, the boat people represent only a fraction of the world's unwanted exiles. Indeed, the age has been called "a century of refugees," because wars and political upheavals and natural disasters like famine and flood have made so many homeless. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Save Us! Save Us! | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

But education is still the unwanted bureaucratic child, roaming up and down Independence and Constitution Avenues in search of a permanent roosting place. By the end of the month, Congress may send a law establishing the Department of Education to the White House. But Carter must do more than sign...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Where to Put The 'E' In HEW? | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

One scene in this production succeeds quite well, and also points up the disaster in the rest. When the Capulets discover Juliet apparently dead in her chamber, they explode in a satirical outpouring off grief that Shakespeare wrote to mock the traditional, over-formal conventions of Elizabethan tragedy. Mother and...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Wherefore Art? | 4/25/1979 | See Source »

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