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Word: copses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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"Even if they dropped the charges against me back in New York and I could walk free, I don't think I'd wanna go back," concluded Fugitive Radical Abbie Hoffman, 38. Facing a 15-year to life prison term if convicted on drug-dealing charges in New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 26, 1975 | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

The Towering Inferno is a return to the sources of film's power. Avant garde directors have tried to make movies compete with other art forms and so lost touch with the elemental appeal of film. Cops and robbers and westerns have been transplanted to television.

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Burn, Baby, Burn | 5/15/1975 | See Source »

Word spread that the U.S. had abandoned the giant commissary at Newport, setting off a frenzy of looting by some 3,000 Vietnamese. As burglar alarms brayed, looters wheeled off shopping carts filled with sugar, medicines and frozen pork chops that began immediately to thaw and drip hi the blazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The End of a Thirty Years' War | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

Bullhorns echoed on Unity Boulevard as gray-uniformed cops tried to control the crowds seeking exit visas. Every American firm, bank and news organization was besieged by strangers seeking help to get out of Saigon. "My daughter worked here during Tet," one old woman told the manager of a news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE EXODUS: Turning Off the Last Lights | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

Like most other entries, the winning cars had been fitted out with ultrabright driving lights, auxiliary fuel tanks, Scheel seats, heavy-duty shock absorbers, wide tires, Snooper units designed to pick up police radar and Citizen Band radio sets on which the drivers got warning of highway patrol cars ("Smokey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Cannonball Dash | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

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