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Baker's late start, however is more a measure of his strength than of his weakness, his supporters say. "They've all been campaigning for a year now and Dad has had a job. Sure he's got a late start but he's in tune with Congress everyday," she...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Mr. Statesman | 11/1/1979 | See Source »

American strength rests on this miracle of food. Without it Carter might be hoeing peanut plants for the Queen and Kennedy might be a barkeep in Ireland. While we falter in other global competition, this season the U.S. harvest of corn, soybeans, wheat and other grains will humble even mythology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Where the Real Gold Is Mined | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

The Yankee dollar's weakness on money markets also reflects decreased innovation. For years high-technology exports such as computers and telecommunications equipment provided a comfortable trade surplus. But since the early '70s foreign manufacturers have strongly challenged American industrial products, and the U.S. has been suffering increasingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Sad State of Innovation | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Secret Rendezvous is a gruesome book, and a grueling book, but not a great one. Many of its ideas are not new; the existential themes of man's isolation and sickness date from as far back as The Woman in the Dunes (1964), Abe's first novel and still his...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Illness as Simile | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

FEW INTELLIGENT STUDENTS need this cliche-ridden crutch to college. The insecure may empathize with the tongue-tied beanstalks in the section on relationships--but what's a manual called College Knowledge without a discussion of carnal knowledge? As it is, all references to clandestine activity--booze, drugs or sex...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Too Much Knowledge | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

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