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A tall man (6 feet 2 inches), but not particularly handsome, Jefferson married relatively late, at 28. his wife, lovely, musical Martha Wayles Skelton, was the widow of his college friend Bathurst Skelton. According to the family story ?he himself is reticent about his private life?Jefferson apparently misjudged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man from Monticello | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

For most of the past year, Mrs. Gandhi has been busy at home enforcing harsh measures to justify the state of emergency she declared last June. That she felt free enough now to make her trip to Moscow, her first overseas journey since the emergency began, is an indication that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Emergency: One Year Old | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

Each of the playlets is a slightly shell-shocked encounter between visitors from outside city-states (New York, Philadelphia, London, Chicago) and Los Angeles, capital of the palm fringe of Western civilization. In playlet No. 1, two divorced ex-writers get together to discuss dividing the spoils: their 17-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Simon in the Sun | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

That contented-looking fellow is Actor Burt Reynolds, starring as a backwoods Southern moonshiner in a new film titled Gator. The half-clad lady bending backward to please him is Actress-Model Lauren Hutton, playing an investigative reporter who falls into Burt's clutches. The movie, which is due...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 29, 1975 | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

We were often ringed by friends from Harvard, most of them ensconsed elsewhere, usually Oxford or Cambridge, and just down for the weekend, or otherwise passing through the great city, often with a Harvard traveling fellowship. Most of these people looked unshakably secure to us, or at any rate free...

Author: By David Landau, | Title: After Harvard: Out in the Unreal World | 11/4/1975 | See Source »

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