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As the patient searchers discern more and more about early man and his predecessors, they also may gain an ever-widening insight about modern man, his nature, his failings and his future. Most major anthropologists reject the notion popularized by Robert Ardrey (The Territorial Imperative) and others that man is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Puzzling Out Man's Ascent | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Another vexing issue has been widening the schism: homosexual priests. In January, New York's liberal Bishop Paul Moore ordained Ellen Barrett, a lesbian, to the priesthood (TIME, Jan. 24), thereby outraging many lay Episcopalians. In a carefully worded statement, the bishops distinguished between a priesthood candidate with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Case of Woman Trouble | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

In the Age of Steam, city railroad stations in the U.S. developed as the natural complement to the trains they served. They were convenient, spacious and well planned-temples to progress. In the Jet Age, by contrast, many airports are monuments of muddle, rapacity and discomfort. Despite $1.2 billion in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: TIME'S Guide to Airports: Jet Lag on the Ground | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

To compound these crimes, Kissinger lied to both the American people and the United States Congress. Many of these operations were in violation of the expressed will of Congress; they were kept secret. Prior to the widening of the war into Cambodia, the Kissinger-Nixon administration pursued a policy of...

Author: By David Johns and Suzanne Silverman, S | Title: Keeping Kissinger Out of Columbia's Classrooms | 5/10/1977 | See Source »

There are, as the Detroit Free Press sports editor Joe Falls admits in this bright, anecdotal history, dozens of 26-mile races. But there is only one Boston Marathon. The rewards for running in this unique race are nugatory. The win ner receives a laurel wreath; other top finishers get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heartbreak Hill | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

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