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August 8, 1978 - Biologist and author Barry Commoner speaks on solar energy.
August 9, 1978 - I. F. Stone is a journalist and the man who began I. F. Stone's Weekly, a Washington publication that used sections of seldom seen documents to highlight governments inefficiency. Stone spoke in Iowa recently on the subject of President Jimmy Carter.Former political reporter I. F. Stone, who for years published I. F. Stone's Weekly, talks about Carter in the White House, the pros and cons.
August 12, 1978 - Dr. Earl Joseph, a futurist and a staff scientist with the Sperry Univac Corporation in St. Paul, speaking at the Saint Paul Rotary Club. Joseph specializes in the study of how computers will influence our lives in the coming years.
August 24, 1978 - Author James Michener speaks in a live address before the National Press Club. Michener appears discusses the state of the novel, and talks extensively about many contemporary American writers.
September 14, 1978 - Frederick Manfred is a Minnesota author who lives and writes near Luverne in Southwestern Minnesota. He participated in a symposium in Moorhead that explored the effects of Place on a writer's works. He talks with reporter John Ydstie.
September 18, 1978 - Author and radio commentator Lowell Thomas talks about his experiences as an adventurer and journalist.
October 12, 1978 - Conservative commentator William F. Buckley offers his view on a variety of topics including the economy as part of remarks made at the National Town Meeting.
October 23, 1978 -
October 23, 1978 - The 150th anniversary of the birth of the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy is celebrated in a special radio profile produced by Radio Moscow. Includes readings from Tolstoy's works.
November 11, 1978 - Dr. Lois Phillips Hudson, author and English professor at University of Washington, Tacoma, describes how rape and fear of being raped work to drain women of energy and assurance they might use to be creative.