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...probable excerpt from some little kid's letter...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: A Forced Rescue | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...approved some job descriptions that eliminated supposedly sexist language, a utility man became a utility person, whose duties included "building personholes." Ever since, Woonsocket has been the butt of jokes from as far away as California, prompting Francis Lanctot, a councilman, er, person, to voice his feelings in verse. Excerpt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Nonsex | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Except for a 7,500-word excerpt from Mario Puzo's new novel, Fools Die, the new 140-page LIFE is pictures, pictures, pictures, most of them in color: of family reunions, the rugged beauty of Antarctica, Frisbee-fetching dogs, the filming of The Wiz, Jackie Onassis in the Manhattan publishing-house office she once occupied, the Shah of Iran in his fortified Caspian Sea retreat, Brooke Shields in a skimpy leotard, Henry Fonda in a Boy Scout uniform, Pope John Paul I in the Vatican, and hot-air balloons over Iowa. Conspicuously absent are the kind of late-breaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Return of Life | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...Excerpt " Of course, there's class. Look around you. A man driving a Cadillac feels he can thumb his nose at me because I'm driving an old V.W.' 'You know there's class when you're in a department store and a well-dressed lady gets treated better.' 'Most people look down on the poor like me because you have to live so shabby and can't help yourself.' 'I'm a carpenter and I won't fit with doctors and lawyers or in country club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reflections in a Gilded Eye | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...Excerpt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Glorious Commander | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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