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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Canadian products. Both are called the Union-Butterfield Division, which belongs to Litton Industrial Products, Inc. in the U.S., and to Litton Business Systems of Canada, Ltd. on the other side. No machinery, materials or goods can cross the borderline in the center of the building-carefully marked by wall plaques and dabs of red paint-unless the appropriate customs service is notified and a duty is paid. Vending machines just a few feet over the line will not accept the currency of the other country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Partly in Vermont: A Borderline Case | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...possibility that if Moscow achieves overall strategic superiority it might gain powerful diplomatic leverage. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Frank Church questioned Kissinger's reasoning; the Idaho Democrat pointed out that even when the U.S. enjoyed nuclear superiority, the Soviets were not inhibited from building the Berlin Wall or putting missiles in Cuba. Kissinger riposted softly, "They might feel less inhibited if we didn't have superiority." While concern about Soviet superiority had been raised by other witnesses, such as the Joint Chiefs, it carried extra weight coming from Kissinger. Just five years ago, he declared: "What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: SALT:A 5% Solution? | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

NORTH DALLAS FORTY is a film about the corrupt, exploitative, and brutal industry of professional sports as told by the corrupt, exploitative and brutal industry of movies. Which means that the filmmakers have given the public what they presume it wants to see--a savage, cynical, off-the-wall, black-and-blue comedy that exposes the scarred, flabby, shot-to-hell underbelly of our country's heroes--our athlete superstars. It says that football players are mutilated, dope addled monster-martyrs who are swept up, wrung dry, and fucked over. One character explains, "We're all whores, so we might...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Of Balls and Men | 8/10/1979 | See Source »

Tenants continued to refuse to pay their rent because the back wall had not been repaired, and numerous apartments still had cracks and holes in the walls and ceilings...

Author: By Jonathan D. Rabinovitz, | Title: Would You Rent an Apartment From Harvard University? | 8/7/1979 | See Source »

Tenants said they were also unsure whether the repairs would be finished. The back wall is still untouched, other than the continuing crumble of bricks to the ground...

Author: By Jonathan D. Rabinovitz, | Title: Would You Rent an Apartment From Harvard University? | 8/7/1979 | See Source »

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