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...been a member of the U.S. Naval Academy's cross-country team 36 years ago, devised his own jogging program, with the help of books like James Fixx's The Complete Book of Running. He started out with one-to two-mile runs around the White House driveway on weekdays, and logged longer distances on his Camp David weekends. Like many novice runners, Carter soon became addicted. Said he: "I start looking forward to it almost from the moment I get up. If I don't run, I don't feel exactly right." By early summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I've Got to Keep Trying | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...feature of this "new wave" of bands--there are hundreds of them. People have realized you don't need a 64-track mixing machine and multiple synthesizers to create a listenable song. There have always been garage bands, and 90 per cent of them never made it to the driveway, but today the garages are sending skilled graduates into cities all the way from New York and Boston on down to Akron...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Memos From Turner | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

...National Gardens Scheme, a plan started in 1927 to raise money for charity, 1,250 private gardens are now open to the public. The owner may be a duchess in Mayfair or a police sergeant in Clapham; the garden, big as a country club or small as a driveway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Nation of Gardeners | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

Unintimidated, Brown flew east and told Washington reporters: "I'm not here to point any fingers. I'm here to try to get some answers." At 10 a.m. Wednesday, the Californian pointedly walked up the White House driveway, met with Carter for ten minutes in the Oval Office and then went with the President to the Cabinet Room for an amiable hour-long chat with the other Californians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Playing Politics with Gas | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...drowning; in Phoenix. A native Ohioan who moved to Toronto in 1929, Davis amassed a fortune estimated at $100 million with a string of manufacturing and transport companies. He once paid $10,000 to have a meteorite that landed near Cleveland crushed and sent to Toronto to cover his driveway with its dust-free gravel and keep visitors from tracking dirt into his living room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 26, 1979 | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

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