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...officially discourages a va-va-va-voom image. The long strut past the judges in abbreviated beach costume is primly referred to as "swimsuit." But it still counts for one-sixth of the total points in the contest. And Christine will still have to put on a highly structured coral-hued number and parade in high heels before a fully clothed audience and a panel of judges. "I always said I'd never do it," she admits, "but it's really no big deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Practicing Swimsuit for Atlantic City | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...Margarita Ross, whose husband heads a Coral Gables engineering firm, was paid $14,200 a year, largely from CETA funds, as Miami's "cultural experiences coordinator." Mrs. Ross was apparently well connected: she is a former partner in a downtown art gallery with the wife of Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Psst! Wanna Good Job? | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...danced to see/That banner in the sky"), three times victorious over proud British frigates. Of the Olympia leading Commodore Dewey's fleet to the liberation of the Philippines, of the Yorktown and the Lexington grievously damaged as they blocked the Japanese imperial armada at the Battle of the Coral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Navy Under Attack | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...COUPLE OF FRIENDS OF MINE used to take Jimmy Buffett intravenously, back when he was a cult figure, him and his imaginary Coral Reefer Band, back before his 1977 smash "Margaritaville" salted the airwaves 40 times a day on every pre-programmed all-the-kids-are-doing-it AM radio station in the country. They still made his concerts last year, but mainly for the sake of the old songs, like "They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More," and for a commode-huggin' good time. They thought "Margaritaville" was a lemon...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: And Texas Hidden Deep In My Heart | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

...culture and language. A third approach, being tried in areas with large Hispanic enclaves, such as New York, Florida and Southern California, is bilingual and bicultural: the programs encourage native-born Americans to achieve fluency in a foreign language even as their counterparts are learning English. In Miami's Coral Way Elementary School, which inaugurated the bicultural method to cope with the huge influx of refugees from Cuba in 1963, all students study for half a day in Spanish and for the other half in English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Three Rs in 70 Tongues | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

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