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...called Save Our Community Schools (membership: 5,000): "Parents attending our meetings are at loose ends. They don't know which way to turn. Things just aren't as calm as the newspapers say they are." Sue Conners, president of Concerned Parents (membership: 16,000), is more vehement. She insists that the antibusing parents are "never" going to give in. "We have a war going," she says. "I think Boston will be small compared to Louisville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rehearsal for Busing | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

...first to praise Finley's work. "He's a hell of a general manager," says Tenace. Adds Jackson: "Charlie will do anything to make his team better." That said, they still hate Finley with a passion. Mention his name in the clubhouse, and the quick response is a vehement "Screw that bastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Charlie Finely: Baseball's Barnum | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

After a few vehement philosophical reservations, I suspended judgment. Nick is again possessed by Penny, and we will visit the Country Music Hall of Fame before setting out for the small town where she lives in the early afternoon...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: The Power of Love: A Nashville Lightning Storm | 4/18/1975 | See Source »

Aloni's views on the Arab-Israeli conflict are equally vehement. "I think we're strong enough to risk some steps towards peace," she says. "Everything, including Jerusalem, should be negotiated. We didn't negotiate earlier, with Jordan, for example, because we thought we could postpone the decision. The government listened to the right wing too much too often...

Author: By Daniel H. Maccoby, | Title: Israel's Politics of War and Peace | 2/14/1975 | See Source »

...teeth, bursitis, gout, influenza, pneumonia to heart attack and-most ominously-leukemia. The Boston Globe carried the electrifying tale that Brezhnev was momentarily expected to arrive at the Sidney Farber Cancer Center for treatment of this deadly blood disease. Despite Brezhnev's conspicuous nonappearance at Logan Airport, and vehement denials of the stories by directors of the Boston clinic as well as by ranking American diplomats, the rumors persisted. Inevitably, so did speculation that a power struggle was mounting in the Kremlin for Brezhnev's top job as General Secretary of the Communist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: The Brezhnev Syndrome | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

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