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...children per woman to a record low of 1.75 last year. Though it may rise in the next 30 years, it is highly improbable that Americans in the foreseeable future will again engage in the great procreational spree of the postwar years. The baby boom has become a bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Looking to the ZPGeneration | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...need science to tell you all men are not created equal. Put a man and a woman in a secluded room and they will soon uncover this fact themselves. The woman cannot grow a testicle, nor the man a bust, nor the African a blonde hair, nor the Caucasian a colorfast suntan. Nor do they need to. As my roommate says, "What counts is not my 140 I.Q., but what I do with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Message | 2/11/1977 | See Source »

...Hill, Bergland has blamed former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz's laissez-faire farm policy for putting farmers in peril of a "disastrous cycle of boom and bust." Butz abolished costly Government food stockpiles and deeply slashed the multibillion-dollar farm subsidies established in the Kennedy-Johnson era. At the same time, he launched an aggressive food-export push that has helped boost farmers' incomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Real Sodbuster | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...same time, however, Wallach was acting to save GEICO. He cajoled 27 other insurers into buying about a fourth of GEICO's existing auto policies (the insurers had a self-interested motive for agreeing: if GEICO had gone bust, they would have been assessed to help pay claims against its policyholders). That provided time, and cash, for GEICO's new chairman, John J. Byrne, 45, who had been hired from Travelers Insurance Corp. in May, to begin an overhaul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: GEICO Pulls Through | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

BOSTON (Epic). Heavy metal's big bust-out band of the year, these five rockers from Beantown stir up a sonic maelstrom in a flashy fusion of acoustic and electronic sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Year's Best | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

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