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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is the age of specialization. No need for every baker to be also a butcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1978 | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...fertilizer and even enriches the soil in which it grows. Any parts picky humans do not want to eat can be fed to cattle. As Horticulturist Jack Kelly of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences puts it, "It's like the butcher's pig. Everything's useful but the oink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Miracle Plant | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

Despite the general rule against modern conveniences-no electricity, plumbing, newspapers, cigarettes or soap -the 20th century kept intruding. British education authorities ruled that schoolbooks had to be available for the children, and laws demanded that a butcher come in to stun and slaughter the pigs. TV crews appeared on the scene about twice a week. Percival allowed the volunteers to use Tampax and contraceptives, sent in a doctor four times during emergencies, and took the group for a summer outing at the shore. Said he: "No one's life should suffer or be altered for a television show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Reliving the Iron Age in Britain | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Economics Department Lecture: Ptodtaka Takeuchi, Professor, Harvard Business School, presents case discussion and lecture on "Butcher Polish." Lecture Room, Margaret Clapp Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELLESLEY | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

Spinks' early competition came straight from Palookaville. He easily dispatched his first opponent, a Brooklyn butcher named Lightning Bob Smith. Three first-round K.O.s followed, and in fight No. 5, Spinks' competitor withdrew at the last minute. A standin, signed just hours before the scheduled bout, left in a stupor after three rounds. By then, even Spinks' ho-hum matches against Journeyman Scott LeDoux and Italian Alfio Righetti could not dim his TV marketability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Leon Spinks Becomes a Somebody | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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