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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were in constant touch by CB radio, informing each other of the whereabouts of the roving caravans of strikers. Driver Roger Heubner, 30, had five of his eleven coal trucks burned in Boonville, Ind., in January. Last week he was carrying a 9-mm automatic pistol in his coat pocket. For Heubner, other truckers and the working coal miners, firearms had become, in effect, their union cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: That's What Guns Are For | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...godhead, Schutt, is better known. A distant relative of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, Schutt was the founder of the Gibbs Historical Society, a front organization for the Gibbsians. Portraits of Schutt's head are displayed everywhere on February 21--"Gibbs Day"--sometimes adorned with the traditional tie and lab coat of the lesser godhead...

Author: By Steven A. Wasserman, | Title: Gibbs Day: A Festival of Pseudoscience | 3/1/1978 | See Source »

Sure enough, the staid and stodgy crowd sang along--coat-and-tied respectables and young hipsters alike. The kind of involvement and interest Pippin demands from its audience is a credit to the play's success...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Worrying About Time | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...shops there, calls Rodeo a "nice, friendly street ?but too expensive." But many Rodeo customers spend without even asking prices, sometimes because they do not speak English. Recently, a young Japanese rushed into Hermès, pointed in quick succession to a $1,000 lambskin jacket, an $850 suede coat, three silk robes at $700 each, five blouses at $350 apiece and many other goodies. While salespeople totaled all his purchases ($8,000), he dashed out to do more shopping. He returned shortly with new luggage to hold his purchases, then dashed off to catch a plane. At Lina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Street off Big Spenders | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

Attired in a poorly fitting trench coat and bright red sneakers, the glazy-eyed miner presents us with an object for our compassion as well as our amusement; his sphinx-like expression never once breaks into an unprofessional grin, unlike his colleagues in the Monty Python group during some of their other skits...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Beating a Dead Parrot | 2/11/1978 | See Source »

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