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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have found that there's at least one bright side to this energy mess: the high you experience when at last you succeed in refueling your car. It is like the caveman who knocks over a marauding dinosaur with one blow of his club: you feel as though you could lick the world−momentarily, at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 30, 1979 | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

Nevertheless, Harris has come a long way by being aggressive. The daughter of a railroad dining-car waiter and a civil servant mother, she finished first in her class at George Washington University Law School. She taught at Howard University Law School, joined a top Washington law firm, served on the boards of IBM, Scott Paper and Chase Manhattan, worked in Lyndon Johnson's presidential campaign and became U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. But when a liberal Senator once implied that she was a member of the privileged class, she indignantly replied: "While there may be others who forget what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Tough Lady for HEW | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...average in-the-ground pool is 18 ft. by 38 ft. and retails for $8,900, a little more than the price of a quality midsize car, but bigger and fancier models cost as much as $30,000. Even sales of above-ground kiddie-type pools, which retail for $700 to $1,200, are running 15% ahead of last year. Total purchases of pools, chemicals and equipment should reach a record of close to $3 billion. The market is helped by the new attention to fitness and the inflation in costs of faraway vacations, but the driving force is gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pool Boom | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

DIVORCED. O.J. Simpson, 32, running-back star of the San Francisco 49ers and Hertz Rent-A-Car commercials; and Marguerite Simpson, 30, an amateur painter; after eleven years of marriage, three children; in Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 30, 1979 | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...group of students' car was burglarized and Biddle said he is worried about the extremely large amounts of cash foreign students are carrying. For the most part, however, the program has not had any major problems so far, he said...

Author: By Steven Waldman, | Title: 170 Foreign Students Arrive For 4-Week English Program | 7/24/1979 | See Source »

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