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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MARLEY continues to record albums like Survivors, he'll survive quite nicely, and with him, the Rastafarian ideology that gives him his direction. His popularity in places as diverse as Africa and North America proves he has struck a common chord that cuts across class and culture. It's impossible to know whether Marley's popularity in the United States is fed by appreciation or curiosity. The music, fortunately, can be enjoyed on either level...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Reggae Revolution | 11/20/1979 | See Source »

Lewandowski said responses to a questionnaire Texaco has distributed to gasohol purchasers indicate that the consumers buy the product because they are reducing America's dependence on foreign oil and improving the performance of their automobiles...

Author: By Andrew B. Herrmann, | Title: Service Stations Test-Market Gasohol; Gasoline-Alcohol Mixture Selling Well | 11/20/1979 | See Source »

Washington had hoped that under Guevara, Bolivia would join with its fellow Andean Group members (Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Ecuador) to form a pro-democracy bloc in Latin America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Next: No. 189? | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Throughout corporate America, male managers are awaking to the reality that women are rising all around them-challenging them, changing their companies and generally shaking things up. Men at the very top are pressing this revolution. Even in the most encrusted industries, chief executives like Bethlehem Steel's Lewis Foy, Equitable Life's Coy Eklund, Du Font's Irving Shapiro and many others are telling their troops to find and hire and promote women. Resistance persists down in the middle-management trenches, but it is crumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Women Shake the Work Force | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...South America, the ubiquitous narrator makes love to a madwoman while slapping ferociously at mosquitoes "whose blood had been our blood only an instant before." One night in Israel, he hides naked on an apartment-house roof, like a character in a French farce, as a jealous husband prowls below. When he falls asleep he finds himself in a graveyard, playing with children long dead. In third-person tales, a homosexual's latent yearning for a woman leads to two murders and a suicide. In others, a rabbi contends with imps, demons, dybbuks and harpies; a woman sins with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God's Novel | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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