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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little whoops of recognition and incredulity in the audience. (Bob Hope may always do that; Don Rickles can get away with it.) The middle orders make the Dean Martin roast, regularly inhabit the "People" pages of magazines and newspapers. All enjoy, at least for a time, immunity from the agent's call proposing that they do an American Express commercial: "Remember me? I used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Perils of Celebrity | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...Monty Python TV skit, an insurance agent blandly informs a client that his premiums have been low only because his policy states, way down in the fine print: "No claim made by you will be paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Infuriating Insurance Claims | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...years. Three years ago he switched to Royal Globe Insurance Co., and since then he has collected $2,275 on three claims-two for water damage caused by heavy rains, one for a robbery. This year Royal Globe refused to renew the policy. After Tobin's agent made a personal appeal, it renewed, but for only one year, and it raised his deductible from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Infuriating Insurance Claims | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

UNITA receives other weapons, ammunition, medicine and spare parts from abroad through Zaïre. According to In Search of Enemies, a newly published expose by former CIA Agent John Stockwell (TIME, May 22), the agency flew $25 million worth of arms to the F.N.L.A. and UNITA through Zaïre. After Congress cut off such assistance in 1975, Savimbi was temporarily in trouble. Lately, however, UNITA has been getting funds from other sources, including $18 million reportedly provided by a coalition of wealthy Angolan Portuguese living in Brazilian exile, along with French, Iranian and Arab sources interested in bringing down Neto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANGOLA: Savimbi's Shadowy Struggle | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...retire eventually. To that end, the former Vice President has put his 21-room retreat on Seal Harbor, Me., on the market. The down-East house, which has a cantilevered deck over the crashing surf, is up for grabs for a cool $1 million. Sotheby Parke Bernet, the agent for the sale, has already issued the word: "If you have to ask about a mortgage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 12, 1978 | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

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