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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sequence of "whiles"-a while as a door-to-door encyclopedia and Bible salesman, a while as a plumber's helper in Oregon, a while as a disc jockey in Fort Worth, and so on. Willie was forever setting off for new destinations with everything he could call his own loaded into his 1946 Ford: Martha, the three kids they soon had, some furniture and an "Oklahoma credit card" (a length of hose for siphoning gas from roadside tanks). A few years of this and Martha began heading for a destination of her own: divorce court. "I tried being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country's Platinum Outlaw | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...Egyptians and Israelis also agreed that White House Press Secretary Jody Powell would be the sole dispenser of information to journalists. Presiding over the single daily press briefing, Powell confined himself intentionally to what he called "rather innocent information" and even refused to acknowledge that negotiations were taking place; he would call them only "serious discussions." CBS's Robert Pierpoint apologized on the air: "We're doing our best with the material at hand, Walter, and maybe later the news will be better." NBC was reduced to opening one news broadcast with extensive closeup footage of a honey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Prisoners of Thurmont | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...buildup of atmospheric CO2. All fires, from the smoky flames of cave dwellers to the searing hearth of a modern steel plant, produce CO2. It makes no difference whether the fire is fueled by wood, coal, oil or gas. The inevitable byproduct is always dumped into what scientists sardonically call the "sewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Warming Earth? | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...really was reached," he said, "because it was an in-depth commentary revealing some nagging contradictions in what we like to call a sexual revolution or a more carefree, problem-free...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Ducks and Sex | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

Anyone interested in playing for the Harvard women's tennis team should come to a meeting at the Palmer-Dixon Courts today at 3:30 p.m. If you can't make it to the meeting, call Coach Peter Felske...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOMEN'S TENNIS | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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