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...going to blot out the light of the star." Nope. The star just went right on by untouched. "Well, here's a closer passing one." Nothing. So for every star whose light was not blocked out, Pluto got smaller and smaller and smaller. People started getting suspicious in the 1970s and started thinking of it not as the ninth planet but as one of the vagabonds of the solar system. It was smaller than Earth's moon. There are seven moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto. That doesn't bode well if you're trying to hang...
...Meanwhile, in his life, Wyeth was not quite the simple yeoman of Chadds Ford. The people he painted might look as though they got around in oxcarts, but by the 1970s Wyeth was driving an ultraluxe black Stutz Bearcat limo, a car he had in common with Elvis and Frank Sinatra. He was good at giving self-aggrandizing interviews and had a gift for self-promotion that came to a head with the curious case of the Helga pictures. Those were a cache of 240 paintings, watercolors and drawings, some of them nudes, that Wyeth had made between...
...Some time around the 1970s, the car business had its first unimaginable crisis due to big cars and expensive gas. Since those car companies didn't learn anything from that experience, there have been episodic auto sector crises since then. And the whole world knows now what this inability to learn from their mistakes has done to the car companies. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...When 1970s Olympic heroes--and mustachioed ones at that--get work done, it would seem to mark social acceptability among guys. Spitz, though, is a spokesman for Allergan, the company that makes Botox and has started to market directly to men via its website. Sure, Spitz first considered getting the world's most common cosmetic procedure after a friend, former Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci, told him that the wrinkles between his eyes made him look old and overly serious, but he got a whole lot more interested when Allergan started paying...
...campaign ends and another begins, Obama will need to broaden his base without disappointing true believers like Richardson. In the 1970s, Richardson graduated from college with a degree in urban studies and hoped to work in the public sector. But his first job, working for then D.C. mayor Walter Washington, was dispiriting. He found himself handing out public-assistance checks to people who were gaming the system, an experience that led him to register as a Republican. Now, he says, he may finally be able to serve as he had always hoped. "I will be 59 in April," he said...