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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aside a proposal to decree ricotta the State Cheese. In Florida, the legislature recently indulged in boisterous repartee over a measure that would have made it a crime to molest the "skunk ape," a mythical critter occasionally sighted around the state that is said to stand 7 ft. tall, weigh 700 lbs. and smell like swamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Trivial State of the States | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...other networks, where no similar plans to weigh anchor have been announced, the ABC experiment will no doubt be watched closely. "It's a healthy thing for the three networks to take different approaches," says Joseph Angotti, executive producer of the NBC Nightly News. "For too long we've looked the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Anchors Aweigh | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Students are encouraged to weigh the seriousness of potential loss of function that may come from ingesting chemicals of unknown nature," the statement added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Group Submits Changes In Rules Regulating Drug Use | 4/29/1978 | See Source »

...have run in three inches of snow and slush going the last six miles with frozen feet," he says. "I've also run when it was 90 degrees out. Then they used to weigh us before and after the race. I started at 130 pounds and finished at 119. My wife wouldn't go out with me because people thought she starved me, he said, smiling...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: A Grand, Old Runner | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

...newsmen pressing to discover what they may be concealing. Yet the difference between the news process and courtroom procedure is profound. The judge is missing-that judge who forbids misleading tactics, freely admonishes both sides, determines which evidence is valid and finally instructs the jury on how it should weigh what it has heard. In the news-gathering process, the press is both prosecutor and sole judge of its own activities-answerable in advance of publication to no one (though it can be sued once the story is out), free to select or disregard evidence as it pleases, free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Indegoddampendent Is Fine | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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