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...townships will never be the same. True, some aspects of the old Soweto still exist: the neatly kept gardens of middle-class black homes; the Dube Lawn Bowls Association, whose members still gather every Sunday in their English whites; the Zionists, an Africanized Christian sect, famous for their daylong religious dances that begin at prayer services in backyard tents on Saturday nights...
...dance program began with performances by Heinz Poll's Ohio Ballet and the Eliot Feld Ballet of New York City. At festival's end a daylong celebration of the music of Scriabin will be topped off by premières of new balletic works by George Balanchine, Sir Frederick Ashton and Glen Tetley...
...craft known as a space-shuttle orbiter will open up a new age in space exploration-the era of the reusable spacecraft-by taking its first round trip around the earth and back. Last week the first of these craft stepped off on this journey into history. In a daylong trek, the ship was moved 58 kilometers (36 miles) across California's Mojave Desert from the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale where it was built to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base. There it will begin tests that will culminate in flights that...
Among those who doubt the Carter projections are the members of TIME'S Board of Economists, who met in Manhattan last week for a daylong look at what is ahead. None of the economists foresees the economy slipping back into recession during the next twelve months. But none predicts anything other than a lackluster 1977, though the economy should speed up toward the end of next year as Carter's measures take hold. The board's averaged-out forecasts...
Bloody Victims. Last week it was invoked again with horrifying consequences. Three Palestinian guerrillas crossed over the Israeli border from Lebanon, took 85 teen-age schoolchildren hostage in a daylong drama and murdered 26 Israelis before they themselves were slain. Next day Israeli jets retaliated with deliberate strikes against Palestinian refugee camps and commando bases in Lebanon. Their bombs and rockets left 50 people dead and more than 200 wounded...