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Except perhaps Geneva, where representatives of the 13-member nations of OPEC met to raise the price of crude. Reporters in that city were greeted at every turn with airport-style metal detection tests, luggage checks and platoons of Swiss police armed with automatic weapons. Said Tehran-based Correspondent Bruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 9, 1979 | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Tuggle's approach to his tale is refresh ingly hardheaded; he does not bother with psychological attitudinizing, superfluous subplots or forced comic relief. Once he has introduced us to his characters, as well as to Alcatraz's labyrinthal layout and elaborate security procedures, he unveils his puzzle: How...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fast Break | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

What younger generations could not know, since she closely guarded her films and an image she felt could no longer be appreciated, was that she was a great deal more than "America's Sweetheart." The plots of her films were often sentimental, but Pickford was not. She was a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Golden Girl, Lost Lady | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

"I can think of many names for the present system that scatters our educational functions into a series of jealously-guarded special interest domains, but efficiency is not one of them," Heftel told his colleagues. "We have created at the federal level an education structure so vast and so unwieldy...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Where to Put The 'E' In HEW? | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Colonel Arthur ("the Bull") Simons, 60, legendary veteran of World War II and the Viet Nam War, who was once described by an admiring John Wayne as someone who plays in "real life the role I play in the movies"; of a heart attack; in Dallas. Green Beret Commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 4, 1979 | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

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