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...Zimbabwe's Prime Minister, former Guerrilla Leader Robert Mugabe. Whether Mugabe will succeed in taming his wilder horses and making true his first promises of reasonable policies toward whites and other systems will have a considerable influence on us. If he cannot control his more extreme collaborators, then obviously there will be serious problems. The extent to which he might associate himself with dissident movements trying to subvert the South African government, either from outside or inside, is going to be of very great importance. But it would obviously be unwise and foolish of South Africa to sponsor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Looking to a Precarious Future | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

Pusey, David H.C. Read, and Amos N. Wilder, Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus, will speak at a memorial service for Buttrick on February 13 at 3 p.m. in Memorial Church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Theologian Buttrick Dies in Louisville at Age 87 | 1/30/1980 | See Source »

...each episode, Marc announces, "Science is fun," and then tries to prove it. Cartoons are shown to explain how things work, and celebrity guests occasionally drop by to take part in the action: Tennis Pro Arthur Ashe, for example, hits a serve timed by radar, and Actor Gene Wilder illustrates communication by talking to a dog. The episodes end with a minimystery film starring three young detectives, known as the Bloodhound Gang, who reason their way to the solution of a crime...

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

Outside the embassy was a far wilder scene as crowds of thousands gathered to shout their support. Above the embassy gate hung a portrait of Khomeini and a loudspeaker over which a voice intoned repeatedly, "God is great" and "There is but one God." At a midnight rally Thursday about 1,000 students, aligned with the leftist Islamic Mujahedin-e Khalq (People's Crusaders), tried to stage a demonstration but found themselves confronting a group of right-wing Islamic extremists. Moderates crying "Allahu akbar!" (God is great) quickly moved in to act as a buffer between the two groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: The Test of Wills | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...Yale and toiled briefly as a press agent for the Shubert brothers before emerging as a theatrical Wunderkind by producing Broadway. Though financially crippled by the stock market crash in 1929, he produced or directed some of the more notable Broadway efforts of the 1930s, including Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-prizewinning Our Town, A Doll's House with Ruth Gordon and The Green Bay Tree with Laurence Olivier. Harris' memoirs, A Dance on the High Wire (Crown; $10) were published early this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 26, 1979 | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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