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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American sugar growers or by the Duvalier family and their friends. The rest of the island consists largely of steep hillsides that have been denuded of trees-the wood is converted to charcoal and sold in the capital of Port-au-Prince for five times the 300 a bag the peasants receive for it. When it does rain, the soil on the hills is washed away. There is, moreover, virtually no catchment system to conserve the water and free the peasants from the whims of the weather. "Irrigation" generally means hauling water in an old oil can from nearby creeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Island of Hunger | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

...block and tackle used to hoist bulls into her father's ring for a corrida. Actress Tessa Dahl's radiant smile came while shooting in London's Hyde Park, when Tessa looked past Dirck and saw a dog in the act of mistaking his camera bag for a fireplug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 16, 1975 | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

...waist, she wore for toppers a bra of solid gold mesh. The bra was designed by Italy's Elsa Peretti, who explained: "It is worn as a jewel, it has a good feeling on the body and it is amusing. You can put it in a little bag and take it with you anywhere." For about $4,000, you can take it out of Tiffany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Karat Top | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

...gentleman once said. 'Eat 'em!'," said the notice accompanying the bag of chocolate kisses in Weld boathouse last Saturday morning. It did not refer to the kisses themselves, though. Instead, the notice was aimed at the fourteen women's crews which went to the line last Sunday in an attempt to depose Radcliffe's heavyweight eight as the premier women's crew in the East...

Author: By James E. Mcgrath, | Title: Radcliffe Crew: Continuing a Winning Tradition | 5/16/1975 | See Source »

...Orson Welles' Romance Festival chugs on and the bag is not consistently wonderful but rather. Has its Moments Two of them this weekend are unconditionally 100 per cent guaranteed to draw enough safety walter from an audience's ducts to float the U.S.S. Nimitz. Make Way for Tomorrow, Leo McCarey's 1937 surefire crier about an old, disowned couple is something of a can't lose proposition from the director's point of view. The performances though, are simply impeccable. There was a stock of oldish actors in Hollywood in the thirties that a studio could draw on to play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCREEN | 5/15/1975 | See Source »

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