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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The gas consumption comparisons can be dramatic; most drivers manage to save 20% to 40%, and some as much as 48%. Though Energy Secretary Charles Duncan Jr. did not take the time to go for a test spin when he visited the exhibit in Washington last week, he did promote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fuelish Myths | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Struck by Lightning (Sept. 19, CBS, 8:30 p.m. E.D.T.) What happens when a young high school teacher (Jeffrey Kramer) inherits an old family inn and dis covers that the handyman is Franken stein's monster? Nothing good. This show, an outlandish mixture of Saturday morning cartoon antics and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: II | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

The artistic risk taken by French Director Diane Kurys in this her first film is large. She wants to break free of the artificiality of plot, the storyteller's hokum in which the revelation of character is only incidental to the tedious march of exposition, complication, resolution. Director Jean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Small Events | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

She was a founding mother of The New Yorker. She was also a gardener, a fiercely dedicated grubber of New England soil, an avid and acerbic consumer of seed catalogues. She had readjust about everything written about greenery and had strong opinions on every specimen from azalea to zinnia. So...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Green Thoughts | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Onward and Upward can be savored by the reader whose closest acquaintance with nature is the corner florist. It is a heady compost of observation, taste, wit and scholarship. She tells us, for example, that the first named variety of apple in North America was Blaxton's Yellow Sweeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Green Thoughts | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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