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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bruise feelings. The draft movements also offer financial advantages. As long as they are not personally connected to Kennedy, they can raise (and spend) as much money as they want, according to a ruling of the Federal Election Commission. Once they are affiliated with his campaign, they can collect only a maximum of $1,000 per person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Out to Stop Kennedy | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...administration, or structure--it is an intellectual issue of teaching and research. We've tried for a decade to bring on a faculty. We have tried and we have failed..." This is another contemptuous statement directed toward African Americans--it implies that one decade is not sufficient time to collect an African American faculty capable of providing its intellectual direction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Afro-American Studies | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

...story can be believed? Although Blake says he checked whatever he could, TIME sources found some parts of McMullen's story credible, other portions improbable. New York City police can see no reason why the I.R.A. would want to kidnap Flanagan, an unpolitical type; any ransom it might collect would hardly be worth the danger of provoking a police crackdown. David Blundy, a London Sunday Times writer who interviewed McMullen extensively before Blake did, says McMullen's accounts of two bombings in Ireland checked out in every detail, but that his stories of his U.S. adventures were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Tantalizing Tales from the I.R.A. | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Last week the Internal Revenue Service disclosed the results of its first effort to gauge how much the Government is losing because of this growing underground economy. The estimate: in 1976, the last year for which full statistics are available, the Government failed to collect income taxes of some $13 billion to $17 billion on legal but unreported transactions worth between $75 billion and $100 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Artful Dodgers | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Yazstrsemski is the 14th major leaguer ever to collect 3000 hits, and the first American Leaguer in history to also slug 400 home runs. Fans flooded the field and the game was stopped for 15 minutes while Yaz accepted the congratulations of his teammates and of the opposing New York Yankees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yaz Does It | 9/13/1979 | See Source »

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