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City Councilor Saundra Graham said that vigilant enforcement of the law requiring landlords to keep their front walks clear should improve conditions.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Endorses City Snow Policy | 10/3/1978 | See Source »

To curtail assaults on their history, Latin American governments have passed stiff new laws against smuggling, stepped up customs inspections and exerted pressure on other governments to cooperate in the fight against the thefts. The U.S., for its part, has made it illegal to import any pre-Columbian object without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Epidemic of Grave Robbing | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

Stallone / Eszterhas / Jewison wanted to offend no one too much, and they end up offending everyone just a little. Johnny Kovak's commitment to the union becomes little more than a grand obsession after a while; stripped of his early idealism, Kovak becomes an inadvertently fascistic figure--ever-vigilant against...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: The Rocky Road | 5/11/1978 | See Source »

Despite the vigilant but not unsympathetic eye of Miss Mona (Carlin Glynn), whom no one would presume to call a madam, the girls feel that this house is cozier than home. But a puritan nemesis stalks them: a local TV Savonarola nicknamed "Watchdog" (Clint Allmon) who is bent on inflaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Delicate Bawdry | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

This habit of skipping past the physical toward the philosophical makes The City Builder an altogether less-urgent narrative than The Case Worker. The bureaucrat hero has evidently led an interesting, if calamitous life, but he strews the details so negligently through his thoughts that only the most vigilant reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hind Thoughts | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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