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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fail to mention the improvements in Air New England since 1970. I can remember flying reconditioned World War II DC-3s and hoping I would get to Cape Cod on the same day I took off. These conditions no longer exist, except in the case of fog, and if there is a delay at least it is on a much more comfortable plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1979 | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Lesbians, who have left behind their "dependence on men," must lead the fight to end the oppression of women. Wittig said that ultimately, men and women will "cease to have reality as classes" and a free lesbian community will exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wittig on Lesbians | 10/10/1979 | See Source »

This passage combines all the misconceptions about events in Cambodia in 1970. We did not encourage Lon Nol or even begin to arm him for weeks after North Vietnamese troops were ravaging a neutral country. The option of Lon Nol's restoring Cambodia's neutrality did not exist; it had been explicitly rejected by Le Duc Tho on April 4, 1970. And by then Sihanouk was no longer in a position to be neutralist. The real prospect before us, therefore, was exactly what the quoted paragraph describes as the most likely outcome: the reopening of Sihanoukville, a government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: WHITE HOUSE YEARS: PART 2 THE AGONY OF VIETNAM | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...Star, conference project director, said yesterday professional graduate studies are less contingent upon previous academic experience than Ph.D. programs. Students have to prepare for Ph.D. programs, she said, adding, "They don't even know these programs exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College-Sponsored Conference Encourages Minority Ph.D.s | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

...realize that religion must have indeed been logical and practical to have survived in the hard lives of these people. In fact religion of these Italian peasants fits the pattern of their daily lives so closely that the dividing line between the temporal and the spiritual ceases to exist. When an old man plants his tomatoes near the stable wall "to keep them warm" as he tells his granddaughter; when a hardworking father gazes in unabashed love at his son studying by the fireside; every time the children splash through the ever-present mud puddle in the stable yard: their...

Author: By Sarah M. Mcgillis, | Title: Truth and Beauty | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

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