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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same state held for House-wide parties. Students knew they were supposed to check I.D.s and buy temporary liquor licenses if they wanted to tap kegs, but few of them did. They maintained they could not break even on dances if they had to pay both a band and $50 for a one-night license. So they chanced the wrath of the Cambridge Police Department--it seemed a pretty safe bet. Harvard parties are almost always uneventful; inebriated students generally head back to their rooms rather than vandalize the city...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Prohibition '79 | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

Mogollon also directed several dangerous diving headers just wide of the mark before he notched the clinching tally...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Booters Run Winning String to Three As Mogollon Registers Lone Marker | 10/24/1979 | See Source »

Getting there proved only half the fun. Some voters were handed accordion-pleated paper ballots a yard wide that listed as many as 841 delegates without offering a clue as to which candidate each was backing. In Dade County, voters had to check off no fewer than 141 names but no more than 188 for their ballots to be valid. In each county, an independent organized labor slate further complicated the options...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Premature Poll | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...bodily resurrection of Christ. The Vatican is also quietly investigating iconoclastic Dutch Theologian Edward Schilebeeckx. The new "apostolic constitution" intended to reaffirm controls over faculties that grant degrees under Vatican authority, is also troubling. This last decree affects departments in only eight U.S. institutions, but could foreshadow church-wide rules in a forthcoming code of canon law. The document requires that the Vatican approve or disapprove the orthodoxy of tenured professors, and urges local bishops to take any doctrinal complaints to the Vatican if the schools themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Aftershock from a Papal Visit... | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...direct fecundity of each and every particular act," the report concluded. But in 1968 Paul's encyclical Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life) totally rejected this theory. It declared all "artificial" methods of birth control unacceptable, thus touching off a sustained campaign of public dissent by theologians and wide disobedience among the laity, especially in the U.S., that has few parallels in modem Catholic history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hard Questions on the Issues | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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