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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sighs. The Gulfwins, it appears, disbanded three years ago when the number of contests decreased. Contests, as opposed to sweepstakes, she is quick to explain, require skill-finishing a limerick, supplying the correct answers, coining a phrase. For some years now they have been losing ground to sweepstakes, a degenerate form in which the judging agency simply draws the winning entry from a bag of mail. True contesters, like Mrs. Haley, look down on sweepstakes. "There are no skill contests left. It's driving me nuts," she says. Most of what Mrs. Haley wins she sells at half price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: A Contest Winner's Road to Shoppertunity' | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...entirely correct in asking) is Danny O'Day? A promoter, comes the answer, full-square and high-balling down a narrow-gauge track, and the man behind "Rock and Roll Heaven...

Author: By Dequinces W. Josephson, | Title: Oh, Atlanta | 9/14/1978 | See Source »

Eckstein said Lipsey and Steiner had vastly improved the macroeconomics section of their textbook, while Samuelson refused to correct the defects in his books pertaining to microeconomic theory...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Ec 10 Section Leaders Dump Samuelson's Bible | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...correct: I'd like to meet you. 14--17: Expert, but no Rotary Scholarship. 10--13: Solid, but you'll probably never get out of group three. 5--9: Probably think 60 Boylston St. is a discoteque. 0--4: Hang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Welcome to the Bigs | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...entering its fourth year, the experiment seeks to correct those inequities at a reasonable cost. Each network may consist of several hospitals and cover a population area with tens of thousands of births a year. Each also has one or more fully staffed and equipped regional perinatal centers, complete with neonatal intensive care units for very tiny and very weak infants. The key to the system's success is to identify and treat women, while they are still pregnant, who are likely to have preemies or sickly babies, rather than rushing the problem infants to the centers after birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Helping Hand for the Newborn | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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