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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A lot of people may think I am joking, but I am totally serious with my choice. He is Claude Ryan, the Liberal leader in the province of Quebec. Ryan has had to face the pressure of separatism, which threatened to break up one of the most politically stable countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

It comes stealing up on us first in the wide eyes of very young children, who see Christmas shining a long way off. Older brothers and sisters are more nonchalant; they can be downright businesslike about it. A camera would be O.K., but how about a snowmobile? As the day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: States' Lights and Christmas Rites | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

The clearest example of Rome's new policy came when Pedro Arrupe, Superior General of the highly influential Society of Jesus, informed his 27,000 members that John Paul has formally directed him to shape up discipline and loyalty among Jesuits. Among the first victims of reform: U.S. Jesuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Not Quite a Heresy Trial | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

The church never honored Sheen with high office. In 1950 he became national director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, and a year later was appointed auxiliary bishop to New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman. But the Cardinal soured on the bishop as his TV and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Microphone of God | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Jon Hall, 66, he-man actor who "was swept to stardom in The Hurricane, a 1937 spectacular that also helped launch Dorothy Lamour; of gunshot wounds that apparently were self-inflicted; in Sher man Oaks, Calif. A champion swimmer who grew up in Tahiti, Hall was best known for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 24, 1979 | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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