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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's what you call easy parody material. I have a friend who makes fun of reggae by saying, everytime I put on a Marley record, "Heh, mon. I believe in Art Linkletter, mon. Because y'know mon, Art Linkletter is de lord man because with Art Linkletter you get life insurance mon, y'know...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Bob Marley: The Rasta Wizard Puts on Ivy | 7/20/1979 | See Source »

...manned program, in virtual hibernation since the last Skylab mission in 1973, will reawaken when the shuttle begins operation next year. Plans call for several missions each year, with the half spaceship/half-glider confined to earth orbit...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: How Giant A Leap | 7/20/1979 | See Source »

...phone call at 2 in the morning in Japan to say that five of your senior employees have quit causes some soul searching. It made us realize that we needed a better pension plan and a more equitable pay structure for our employees," Eckstein said. The ordinary DRI employee will benefit from the sale, he said...

Author: By Kim Bendheim, | Title: McGraw Hill Inc. Plans to Buy Company Run by Otto Eckstein; Data Resources Stock Jumps | 7/17/1979 | See Source »

...National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which conceived and launched Skylab six years ago, took comfort in the mathematics of probabilities. Some 500 fragments of the huge space workshop will be dispersed over an area 4,000 miles long and 100 miles wide, a scattering that the scientists call, with anthropomorphic archness, Skylab's "footprint." Moreover, on each of Skylab's 90-minute orbits of the earth, nearly 67 minutes, or 75%, is spent over water. What all that means, contend NASA'S statisticians, is that the chance of any remnant striking a human being is only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skylab's Fiery Fall | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

Boston used to call itself the Athens of America. At the turn of the century, the city boasted 50 theaters for drama and vaudeville, despite a population of 507,000. Today just four of those buildings remain as legitimate theaters, and they are right next to the notorious "combat zone," where neon signs for porno joints light up more often than the theater marquees. Although the venerable Boston Symphony Orchestra continues to flourish, it is the city's only established performing arts institution. Even the major touring companies bypass Boston: world-famous dance troupes like the Bolshoi, Stuttgart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Culture Drought on the Charles | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

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