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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some vindicated prophets are already riding high. Among them are Washington's Henry M. Jackson, who has fought a lonely battle for more U.S. power year upon year, Georgia's Sam Nunn, who saw a crisis coming and used the SALT debate to nudge the Government toward more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Diplomatic standings will change in the coming era, some up, some down. The Soviet Union's smooth-talking Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin will rate lower. So will former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and certain diplomats from the Third World. Henry Kissinger, former everything, will step a notch up. So will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

The commission, chaired by Sol Linowitz, 66, now Special Ambassador to the Middle East, presents both distressing findings and challenging recommendations. The hunger problem today is vastly different from that of the past, when recurrent famines killed millions. Now there is so little food in so many parts of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Target: Hunger | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

When the morning traffic began to pile up at the train station in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, the village elders decided that too many commuters were slowing things down by tarrying to kiss their wives goodbye. To curb such dalliance, the officials designated the area where cars pulled up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Ban the Buss! | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Banning the buss has made parting a sweeter sorrow. "Kissing is up 100%," says Assistant Village Manager Marjorie Emery. Reports Commuter Lawrence Rosskin: "I take a later train so my wife and I can linger under the sign a while." So popular are the signs that they must be taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Ban the Buss! | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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