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...meantime, members like Roy A. Palmer, 41, of Raleigh, N.C., hope to further the bald cause. Says he: "We're a minority. Every business ought to have a bald-headed man." Members also share news and a little ribald humor via BHMA'S quarterly publication Chrome Dome. Sample: "Baldies were the original streakers. We just started from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Bald Is Beautiful | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

...opinions: new wage-price controls would hamper steel production; the U.S. should "close the gates" on exports of steel scrap (presumably because they tend to keep supplies down and prices up at home); it would be a "tragedy" if the U.S. reimposed an embargo on imports of Rhodesian chrome; and there is only one way that American industry can raise the capital it needs to expand-"more profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: New Faces Among the Advisers | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

...Overdrive--The Voice of the American Trucker," proclaims the magazine's cover; "The Price of Truth $1.50." Below this modest legend appears a full color photograph of a gleaming Peterbilt, or Kenworth, or a White Freightliner, with all chrome bumpers and wheels and stacks, always accompanied by a busty young model very scantily attired...

Author: By Robert W. Keefer, | Title: Mike Parkhurst: Leading the Last Cowboys | 7/16/1974 | See Source »

TRADE. Soviet-American trade has jumped from $200 million in 1971 to $ 1.5 billion in 1973, with the dollar-ruble balance 7 to 1 in favor of the U.S., which buys Soviet vodka, platinum, diamonds and chrome ore and sells oil-and gas-drilling equipment, machinery and electronic gear, including computers. The Russians have been eager for loans and technological know-how, and so far they have got some of both. Only in May Nixon intervened with the Export-Import Bank to approve a $180 million loan for eight Soviet ammonia fertilizer plants and the attendant gear to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: The Third Summit: A Time of Testing | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...able to go its own way with remarkable success. Guerrilla movements were generally unable to mobilize the territory's 5.7 million blacks against the white-dominated government. Sanctions voted by Britain and the United Nations were largely ignored by countries that saw profits in Rhodesian tobacco, beef and chrome. But 18 months ago, a guerrilla movement called ZANU (for Zimbabwe African National Union) caught hold on the rich agricultural plateau overlooking the Zambezi valley in the north. Since then, a bitter guerrilla war has claimed nearly 500 lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: The Thin White Line | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

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