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By virtue of his consistency, intelligence and charisma, Ted Kennedy inspires the spirit that Jimmy Carter has always tried to capture. He is the vigilant knight who knows how to lead a stagnant country into a new era.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1979 | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Every morning at 6 a.m. loudspeakers on the ornate clock tower above Hanoi's Central Post Office crackle to life with the strains of the patriotic pop song, In Praise of Ho Chi Minh. Within the hour most of the city's 820,000 residents have mounted their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: Here, Everyone Suffers Equally' | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

At week's end, after several days of public agonizing and behind-the-scenes bickering with the utility companies, the NRC reached a Solomonic decision that was face-saving for everyone. It issued a shutdown agreement, but only after the utilities "voluntarily" offered to suspend operations at the nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nixing Nukes | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

Now M & J apparently feel that the public is ready for their clinical findings on a more controversial form of sex: homosexuality. They can hardly be accused of rushing into print-the homosexual research project began in 1964 and the laboratory work was finished in 1968. The book reports on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Masters & Johnson on Homosexuality | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

Ultraconservative Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., 66, has dominated New Hampshire politics for three successive terms. In league with powerful right-wing Publisher William Loeb, Thomson has kept the Granite State free of both a sales tax and a personal income tax, the only place in the nation where neither levy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Down with Corruption | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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