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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twin screws in the stern force the ship's nearly 2-in.-thick tempered-steel bow up over the edge of the ice. The ice bends, then yields with a deep, dull, grinding mutter. Below decks, it sounds as if the Mac is bumping along over a dry bed of rocks. Down in the engine room crewmen wear plastic ear muffs to muffle noise from the cutter's ancient 2,000-h.p. diesels. As the ice field gives way, the Mac slips back and forth in a bow-to-stern rocking motion, soothing enough to make your eyelids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Great Lakes: A Mackinaw Dance for U.S. Steel | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...soften some of the criticism that helped kill the legislation last year, the Administration has vastly modified this session's bill. Last year's plan would have clamped a limit of 9% on the annual increase in revenues that hospitals could receive from bed patients. This time, the Administration would give the hospitals until Jan. 1, 1980, to prove that they can hold the amount of money they spend, rather than take in, to an annual increase of no more than 9.7%, plus an adjustment that would take into account some inflation factors. (Studies show that hospital revenues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Taking the Litmus Test | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

After a quick water pistol fight with his roommate. Michael Coglin lies down on his water bed wearing a Harvard swimming t-shirt and says, "I hate water...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Coglin Takes on All and 'Always Wins' | 3/17/1979 | See Source »

...that one sister sleeps with Serge, all the others want to as well. They grab for him physically and spiritually hoping that if only he will agree to live with them they will be saved from their miserable lives. The two old aunts, who must sleep in the same bed even though they hate each other, add their pleas to the chorus. Jealousy, lust, hatred, infidelity, frustration--all swirl around Serge as he tries to reconcile his incestuous love with his obligation to his sick father...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: A Family Affair | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...mood for a light meal, try a seafood dish or one of the omelettes. The omelettes come with fillings including shrimp, mushrooms and broccoli. The seafood is fresh and crispy. For $3-$4 you can eat Shrimp Louis, plump white shrimps on a bed of lettuce and eggs with dressing, or order a platter of fresh Crab Claws Matignon, very sweet and tender. And a real plus--Cafe Florian's lettuce isn't wilty or dark, and it's surprisingly fresh...

Author: By Nancy A. Tentindo, | Title: Chez Chic | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

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