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...cracks are hardly sidesplitters. In fact, most humorous material on Ford is visual, not verbal. On NBC'S comedy show Saturday Night, Actor Chevy Chase often opens the program by stumbling into his lectern. Says Chase: "Ford is so inept that the quickest laugh is the cheapest laugh, and the cheapest is the physical joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Ridicule Problem | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

...morning flights on scheduled airlines; no stamps are supplied for answering fan mail; torn pants and two-year-old shirts are handed out in the clubhouse; and there is no free telephone in the clubhouse for local calls. "The problem is simple," says one player. "Charlie Finley is the cheapest son of a bitch in baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Charlie Finely: Baseball's Barnum | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

...When Peking permits, Rotel will probably offer 30-day tours of mainland China for around $2,000. At prices ranging from about $100 a day for a seven day trip to Rome and Assisi to $2,00( for a 40-day Australian marathon, Rotels are probably the cheapest way available anywhere to see the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Kenya | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

Many Americans have found that; holiday in their own country is now less expensive than almost any foreign foray, whether they buy the cheapest ticket -the Greyhound Ameripass, 30 days of unlimited bus travel for $175-or go for a fly-and-drive tour of the Northwest. Travel within the U.S. has shown a marked increase, notably in the South and West. Alaska and Hawaii have also enjoyed a bumper summer. Heading south into Baja California along the new transpeninsular highway, gringo travelers have discovered such little-known Mexican resorts as Puerto Escondido, Loreto and Mulegé, all moderately priced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Tourism: Yankees, Come Back! | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

...stuff for his monoliths as he was driving north to Vermont one day in 1972, after one of his infrequent trips to New York: the highway went through a cutting, and ragged chunks of stone were littered all along the roadside. Realizing that "granite has to be the cheapest thing in Vermont - the damn state is all granite," he struck a bargain with a stone quarry near his cabin in Winooski, Vt. They sold him waste granite for $6 per ton. "There's a mountain of it - some chunks the size of pebbles, some as big as boxcars." Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Working on the Rock Pile | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

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