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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Linda Ronstadt's appeal stems from her daring to be blatantly sexy in a business in which women are commonly thrown to the wolves and gobbled for breakfast. She doesn't do the ethereal madonna bit, nor does she do the red-hot-mamma routine. She is just a pretty lady who happens to sing like an angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: The Ultimate | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

Sensing the mood, Carter's lobbyists on the Hill realized that they faced a losing fight. The President invited the committee's Democrats to a White House breakfast (orange juice, Danish and coffee), but he too took a low-key approach. "There was no arm twisting whatever," reported Connecticut's William Cotter. Added Arkansas' Jim Guy Tucker: "He didn't press us to the wall or anything. He was very reasonable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOBS: Something for No One | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

Henry Brock is an English bachelor and a railway man with a precise idea of heaven: "The right sort of train to London ... a morning train, with a good breakfast car, lots of coffee and toast and bacon and eggs and marmalade, the newspaper, and two or three hours of pleasantly changing views through the window." Alas, such bliss is denied him. On holiday in Italy, Brock and his girl friend are drowned when their cruise ship sinks. Because of his record of unrepented fornications, he is sentenced to the Second Circle of Hell -Dante's Circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Some Like It Hot | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...discussing next Tuesday might be a bit premature--especially since next Tuesday might be spent in Cambridge watching Laverne and Shirley while reading Hobbes compare man to a machine (on second thought, don't count on it)--as well as optimistic, partisan, and somewhat like worrying about lunch at breakfast, it isn't really...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Skating on Thin Ice | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

Last spring, CHUL asked Food Services to look into the possibility of offering a continental breakfast at five River Houses and a full breakfast at a few centrally located Houses. General disapproval from the undergraduate community defeated the proposal in the planning stages. Another proposal which was given consideration as a cost cutting measure, but then faded, was the abolition of unlimited second portions. "That would be a total disaster," Weissbecker said. "I visited one school that tried it, and they almost had the students rioting. It would be unfair to limit the amount of food students eat," he added...

Author: By Anne E. Bartlett and Honey Jacobs, S | Title: The Politics of Meal Planning | 3/2/1977 | See Source »

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