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...BEGINNING, there were blues, rhythm and "race music." Then there were Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis, as well as a swarm of other young musicians, black and white, singing what was labeled as "black" music. And disc jockey Alan Freed and the record companies looked down upon this phenomenon and realized that white middle-class teenagers went ape over this taboo "black" music that their parents hated. And Freed called it "Rock and Roll," and it was good . . . and profitable...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: The Way We Weren't | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

This sentimental film biography of pioneer Rock Disc Jockey Alan Freed is the work of slobs, but there's no use pretending that it isn't fun. In its own bumbling way, American Hot Wax rekindles the cataclysmic spirit of the rock-'n'-roll revolution of the 1950s. Audiences who care little for rock should stay away, and so should anyone who expects movies to offer a credible plot. American Hot Wax is largely meant for a hard-core crowd-the moviegoers who have seen Saturday Night Fever three times and are desperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rock Follies | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...ranging from hepatitis to gonorrhea. Now an extract from the fruit has become the center of a growing medical controversy. Despite doubts expressed by many U.S. experts, hundreds of U.S. citizens are traveling to Canada to be treated with a papaya enzyme for what is commonly called a slipped disc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Great Papaya Fracas | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...spend only two days in a hospital. Almost unanimously, they give glowing testimonials to the benefit they have received. Indeed, if the injections are as curative as supporters claim, they would banish the need for costly operations for many of the estimated 170,000 Americans who each year undergo disc surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Great Papaya Fracas | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...President faces a particularly rough time in trying to impose reforms on business. There is little likelihood that Congress will accept the White House proposal to phase out the Domestic International Sales Corporations (DISC) program, under which companies can defer taxes on some of the profits they earn by exporting, or that it will end deferral of U.S. taxes on corporate profits earned and reinvested abroad. The legislators are against anything that might put U.S. businessmen at a disadvantage with their European and Japanese competitors. Says Republican Congressman Barber Conable of New York, a collector of Indian tomahawks who sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Are Bigger Tax Cuts Ahead? | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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