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...their laid-off employees are unhappily adjusting to a switch in national priorities that they could not have foreseen. The U.S. still needs an innovative and relatively large aerospace industry. Yet the overriding new concern with social needs and the environment makes it unlikely that the industry will regain the pre-eminence that it enjoyed as recently as two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Aerospace: End of the Gravy Years | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...beginning to regain a vestige of our racial pride, and I think we're learning we must unite and stop trying to show our puppy-dog good will by laying a hatful of feathers and an honorary chieftainship on every "white savior" that comes among us. Maybe a few arrows in the glutens maximus would be more apropos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 2, 1970 | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...Wait Until Tomorrow has all of these advantages. But after Namath's disappointing season last fall, and the Jets' failure to even regain their AFL title, much less the Super Bowl championship, much of what the book depends upon for readership appeal has vanished. And what is left reads like a post-facto apologia, in which few people still have any interest...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: The Namath Saga | 2/28/1970 | See Source »

...support swept Communist forces off the strategically located Plain of Jars in north-central Laos. It was the first time in five years that the government had controlled the area. Last week the pro-Communist Pathet Lao and their North Vietnamese allies launched a long-awaited attempt to regain the plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Clearing the Plain | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...unlimited bout was knotted at 1-1 when Chuck Dresell was awarded one point for riding time to go ahead, 2-1. Abbott, needing a takedown to regain the lead, pushed too hard and was taken down himself to drop a 4-1 decision...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Crimson Wrestlers Draw Spades As Ivy League Title Hopes Fade | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

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