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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tempered by a rosy view of the oceans' potential. Scientist John P. Craven, lately of M.I.T., predicted that there will be airports floating on the seas by 1980. "and eventually these airports would become cities that would summer off Cape Cod and winter off Florida." Pardo went one step farther: "In future generations, a big percentage of the world's population will live in cities under the seas...
WITH this issue, TIME takes a step that breaks a long-standing tradition. At the same time, it is only the logical outcome of a gradual and I think inevitable evolution. Henceforth, our cultural criticism, the TIME Essay, and occasionally certain other stories will be signed by their authors...
Worst Light. The White House took the unusual step of replying to the charges. The vehicle was a telegram from Presidential Consultant Leonard Garment, Nixon's chief liaison with civil rights groups. Garment termed Spottswood's attack "unfair and disheartening," and said that it "misrepresents" the Administration's record. "It is one thing to criticize, to give voice to deeply felt concerns," the telegram said. "But it is an entirely different thing to search out ways to portray the actions of this Administration in the worst possible light, to rally every fear and reinforce every anxiety. This...
...black children will attend integrated school systems next fall. For many, the experience will not be pleasant. They will find that thousands of white children have fled to new private "segregation academies." In many cases white school officials have sent public school equipment along with them. Louisiana went a step further last month by approving state financial support for private schools...
...antidote to campus disorder, dozens of U.S. colleges have lately invited students to share the chores of administration. Key faculty committees boast voting student members; boards of trustees bloom with recent graduates. Now the trustees of New Hampshire's Franconia College have gone a step farther. They have just named a graduate student as the school's new president. He is Leon Botstein...