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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside, students who were kept away by police and chained gates vowed to "keep on fighting." "When we go home this summer, we have to spread the word in our hometowns about what is going on, what is happening here," one organizer said...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Boston Nuclear Fallout | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

...While many planning schools have suffered in recent years from declining applications, our own are up by 50 per cent since 1975 and by more than 350 per cent since the early 1970's when major curricular reform began. It appears that satisfied graduates and employers have spread the word that Harvard provides high quality education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Planners React | 4/5/1979 | See Source »

...tongue, she talks in the same eerie high-pitched grunt that deaf people use. In fact, Irving acts handicapped so well that she may have jumped from the super-natural to the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat clinic. "I've gotten lots of scripts for affliction films since the word got out that I do my homework," Irving says...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: One Sings, The Other Doesn't | 4/5/1979 | See Source »

...Chinese premier's name "Hua Kuo-feng" in Wade-Giles--would become "Hua Guofeng" in Pinyin. Egan said. The Chinese word for China. "Chung-kuo," is "Zhangguo" in Pinyin...

Author: By Nancy R. Page, | Title: Yenching May Have to Adopt New Transliteration System | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

...lawman named William Tilghman had once worked with Bat Masterson in Dodge City. By 1915 he was directing westerns, which in those days often starred such authentic outlaws as Al Jennings and Emmett Dalton, last of the legendary family gang. Tilghman was on location in Chandler, Okla., when word came that a wild bunch headed by Henry Starr (Belle's nephew) had robbed a bank in Stroud, 17 miles away. The director dropped his camera, grabbed his gun and rode off in pursuit of the miscreants, capturing one "Alibi Joe" Davis before resuming work on his picture. The incident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Record of Fleeting Realities | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

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