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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The seventh Earl of Lucan, descended from the commander who ordered the Charge of the Light Brigade, was reportedly driven to murder a few years ago by debts incurred during his binges at the chemin defer tables, at $2,000 a deal. At least one turf-preoccupied London bus driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: In the Chips | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

In ten years as a salesman, lacocca sold so many cars that Ford Vice President Robert McNamara brought him to Detroit as marketing director for Ford trucks. In 1960, at the precocious age of 36, lacocca attained what was at one time his life's goal, a Ford vice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mr. Upward Automobility | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

At the windows of a rehearsal room at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, rows of little female heads glisten in the sun, their chins just making it up to the sill. They are lucky children, for they are watching New York City Ballet Choreographer George Balanchine rehearse his newest principal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Up and Away in Saratoga | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

Shot? Horrid smell." And later: "Today did not set the tent but put up in Gov[ernmen]t shimbek. Zanzibari in charge-very obliging. Met ripe pineapple for the first time. On the road today passed a skeleton tied up to a post. Also white man's grave-no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cardiograms of Darkness | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

Ever since the pay toilet was banned by the New York State legislature last year, Nik-O-Lok Co. of Indianapolis, which markets the device and collects some 25% of the revenue, has been working to regain its lost business. One solution: a device that enables gas stations to charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: About the Right to Free Air | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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