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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right, while a pardon merely granted forgiveness. He thus brought audiences around to accepting the idea of a pardon. In fact and in law, however, amnesty does not imply approval. Reminded of this by a TIME correspondent last week, Carter smiled and rather archly said: "I'll define the word any way that suits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: STAMPEDE TO CARTER | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

...Electable"?that will be the buzz word dominating the bitter Republican struggle, probably right down to the convention floor in Kansas City, Aug. 16. The argument will be whether Gerald Ford or Ronald Reagan will have a better chance of beating the formidable Jimmy Carter in November. The very fact that doubts are being cast on the electability of a sitting President with the traditional advantages of incumbency is a measure of the trouble Ford is in. It is also a measure of how far Reagan has come from a shaky start, with no credentials in foreign affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: G.O.P. DONNYBROOK | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

Watching her patient come out of a coma, the nurse asked a traditional question: "Do you know where you are?" Congressman Wayne Hays nodded. "Where?" she persisted. Slowly, stretching out the word, he replied: "Barnes ... ville." Hays had survived an excessive dose of sleeping pills, mind undamaged, and would keep his place at the center of a congressional scandal that grew still more lurid last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: What Liz Ray Has Wrought | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

...this year were to be summed up in a word, that word would have to be something like "retrenchment." Certainly, in a year when the biggest story to hit the papers dealt with a guy who gets canned for cooking some vegetables too early, or some guy who gets to be president of a major University by holding up a can of vegetables, or when some vegetable and his wife defraud Harvard Law School, or, indeed, when a bunch of wilting females decide to revert to prehistory by forming a new finals club, you know the Revolution just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Year in Review: A note to the reader. | 6/17/1976 | See Source »

...much, who uses the skills he learned in his labor experience to keep his central administration running smoothly. After insisting that he does make unpopular decisions for which there is no compromise solution, Bok adds, "I don't think, on the other hand, that compromise should be a dirty word...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trading in '60s liberalism for laissez faire | 6/17/1976 | See Source »

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