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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If Congress provides the needed funding, the probe will be carried into earth orbit by the space shuttle in the summer of 1985. Boosted by a conventional rocket, it will fly off toward the comet, gradually accelerated by its cluster of six or eight small ion engines, during the four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tailing a Comet | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Tiny but hardly fragile, she flew tourist class, praying briefly before the jet touched down at Oslo's Fornebu Airport. Dressed as always in blue-trimmed white sari and sandals, with a threadbare wool overcoat her only concession to subfreezing temperatures, Serbian-born Mother Teresa, 69, the "angel of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 24, 1979 | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Actress Jean Stapleton might well be considered a new driving force behind the Equal Rights Amendment. Currently on a ten-city tour with a production of George Kelly's Daisy Mayme, she has been steering limousine services onto the road toward employment equality by requesting female drivers whenever she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 24, 1979 | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

His handling of last winter's record blizzards helped bury the political career of for mer Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic. Now a sculpture of Bilandic and his socialite wife Heather, by John Setick, has created another blizzard, this one of controversy. Sefick's The Bilandics, which the sculptor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 24, 1979 | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Leroy ("Satchel") Paige, 73, the lanky pitcher who over four decades terrified opponents and electrified fans with his artistry on the mound, is about to get the TV-movie treatment. In Don't Look Back, an ABC film to be aired next year, Lou Gossett Jr., will portray Hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 24, 1979 | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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