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...high school band struck up the Beatles' song With a Little Help from My Friends, Kennedy grinned and shouted, "We're going up to Maine and then to New Hampshire and all the way through to California. Then we'll see who is going to whip whose what." Equally boisterous at his downtown headquarters, he told supporters that he had challenged Carter to debate him when the two appear before the Consumer Federation of America in Washington on Feb. 7. Asked Kennedy, to a roar of approval: "Don't you think it's about time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: To Sail Against the Wind | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Harvard's women cagers cracked the whip last night and caged the Tigers...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Hoopsters Tame Tigers | 2/9/1980 | See Source »

...first real test of his campaign for reelection, he gave Senator Edward Kennedy the walloping of his life at the Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses. Without a doubt, as once predicted, Carter did "whip his ass." Then, standing in the glare of TV lights in the House of Representatives, the President sent the Soviets a forceful warning in his State of the Union address: "Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carter Takes Charge | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...Another Day." So reads the prayer put in the kitchen of the London mansion occupied by the Vatican's Ambassador to Britain, Swiss-born Archbishop Bruno Heim, 68. The supplicant chef frequently turns out to be Heim himself, who likes to slip an apron over his cassock to whip up sauces or stir his favorite golden champagne cocktails (ingredients: good champagne, a soupçon of pineapple juice, a splash of Cointreau, 12 oz. of soda and a tsp. of sugar). Heim, who speaks 14 languages, newly enjoys, as apostolic delegate, diplomatic status granted by the British government, healing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 4, 1980 | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...stations, CTW now applies its zingy production style to a more complex and elusive subject: science. The series of 30-min. shows, with the space-age title 3-2-1 Contact, provides glimpses of everything from leaping lizards and killer whales to computers that talk and roller coasters that whip their riders upside down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Teaching the Scientific ABCs | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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