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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In fact, Houston police records show, about 280 juveniles are reported missing every year from the Heights section, just a small fraction of the thousands of runaways reported in the city every year. David Hilligiest, believed to be one of the still-unidentified victims, has been missing-and the object...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Runaways: A National Problem | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

The emerging pattern is one of divergence, a pattern well represented on Brothers and Sisters. "Jelly, Jelly" represents the band's dedication to blues. In the forties the definitive version was done by Billy Eckstine, and Chicago bands have done it with varying degrees of obscenity; it's a thank...

Author: By Freddy Boyd, | Title: Song of the South | 8/21/1973 | See Source »

Much of the book's success is due to its remarkable popularity among religious groups. The apparent reason: I'm OK reveals Harris-a practicing Presbyterian - as a cross between Norman Vincent Peale and Billy Graham. A cheerful mass evangelist, he preaches a gospel of original sin and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: T.A.: Doing OK | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

11:30 p.m.--Sunset Boulevard. Billy Wilder utilized his detailed knowledge of Hollywood decadence in writing the Oscar-winning screenplay to an all-that-glitters-is-not-sequins sunset city epic. William Holden gurgles the narration from his face down predicament in Gloria Swanson's swimming pool, but after the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 8/7/1973 | See Source »

That was one of the few times anybody ever fired Billy Taylor, but only one of many occasions on which he could be accused of giving jazz a good name. As a disk jockey for Harlem's WLIB, Taylor in the early 1960s developed such a following of listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: O.K., Billy! | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

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