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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...thousand doomsaying paperbacks. In some, people stood close together, two to each square foot of soil. Others gave dreams of the winter without oil, or the year that the Third World collectively decided it had suffered long enough at our expense and sent vanguard elements to wreak havoc. Many feared nothing more complicated than nuclear holocaust; and a few still thought that, after all, it might be the Communists. If the peddlers of survival gear are to be believed, people have of late begun to act on their fears, caching enormous stores of dehydrated food and Geiger counters and, especially...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Crashing | 11/13/1980 | See Source »

SUPPOSE THERE ARE two academic centers of power vying for intellectual hegemony--call them Harvard and Yale. Harvard, long dominant in struggles for primacy, has grown complacent. Yale, meanwhile, has devised a cunning plot designed to wreak havoc at Harvard and pave the way for its own ultimate victory in the cold war of academia...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Don't Touch That Story--It's Unpatriotic | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

SUPPOSE THERE ARE two academic centers of power vying for intellectual hegemony--call them Harvard and Yale. Harvard, long dominant in struggles for primacy, has grown complacent. Yale, meanwhile, has devised a cunning plot designed to wreak havoc at Harvard and pave the way for its own ultimate victory in the cold war of academia...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Don't Touch That Story--It's Unpatriotic | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

SUPPOSE THERE ARE two academic centers of power vying for intellectual hegemony--call them Harvard and Yale. Harvard, long dominant in struggles for primacy, has grown complacent. Yale, meanwhile, has devised a cunning plot designed to wreak havoc at Harvard and pave the way for its own ultimate victory in the cold war of academia...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Don't Touch That Story--It's Unpatriotic | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...their investigation, the police tentatively concluded that the bomb had been composed of a common form of TNT, apparently packed into one or two suitcases. Its timing was obviously calculated to wreak maximum carnage: a Saturday morning, the first rush of the August vacation exodus, when the station was packed with an estimated 10,000 people scurrying for tickets and trains. Shortly after the blast, an anonymous telephone caller claimed that the bomb had been planted by a neo-Fascist group called the Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (N.A.R.). One possible motive for the outrage: it had been announced earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Bologna's Grief | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

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