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Sincere though she may have been, her own blind faith won few converts. In Chicago, her first stop, her address to the National Urban League included a long litany of Carter's black appointees, each name followed by the refrain "he [or she] happens to be black." The derisive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Selling True Grit | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

A Celebration of One Thousand Years of British Gardening," includes architectural plans of medieval and Tudor landscapes, assorted tools of the trade (including the first mechanical lawnmower, a green-and-red contraption patented in 1830), and paintings that preserve the image of estates long since lost to the taxman and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Nation of Gardeners | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

By week's end Carter's aides were insisting that he was in a whirlwind of activity at the presidential hideaway, though there still seemed to be little sense of direction to what was taking place. The President summoned his top political advisers-essentially the Georgia Mafia -eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter Was Speechless | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

The Encyclopedia takes a rigorously objective approach, offering no judgments of creed. The work is a unique reference owing to Melton's new material on what he calls the nation's "hidden religions," groups which lie outside the mainstream and are barely visible to outsiders: spiritualists, religious psychics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church Hunter | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

PROPHECY at least has a social conscience, pretending to explore the white man's physical and moral pollution of Indian lands in Maine. Methyl mercury, used to soak lumber, gets into the fish, which is later consumed by animals and humans. The poison primarily affects the fetus, causing nasty mutations...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Beast in All of Us | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

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