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...keyboard man with Miles Davis from 1963 to 1968, Hancock long ago made his mark in the jazz community. When he stepped out on his own, it was to make a series of innovative LPs for Blue Note and Warner Bros, that combined an almost impressionist sense of harmony, fleet melodic lines and sprinting tempos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Improvising on the Beat | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

...economic blow has fallen hardest on New England; nearly half of the 74,000 jobs wiped out or transferred by the cutbacks were located in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The closings of the Newport Naval Station and Quonset Point Naval Air Complex and the exodus of a 30-destroyer fleet have lowered the personal income of Rhode Island's citizens by $307 million a year-a loss about equal to the economic damage wreaked in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky by this spring's tornadoes. In addition, Rhode Island Governor Philip Noel complains that the state has been saddled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ENGLAND: Bases for Sale | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...Witkar is a two-seater, drive-it-yourself electric vehicle. It purrs peacefully at up to 20 m.p.h. and 2.4 miles between strategically located stations where it can be recharged in five minutes. There will be 15 in July, and eventually Amsterdam's burghers plan to have a fleet of 1,500 of the buggies in the central city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Witkars of Amsterdam | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...least a close facsimile of the Fred Gwynne character but three times more dense, barged into the building we were soliciting, asked us if we had been sneaking around the neighborhood telling people we were rapists and stranglers, and not waiting for an answer whisked us out to a fleet of waiting squad cars. After manacling both of us, he threw us in the back seat, and while an Arlington townie gave us a few free elbows to the jaws, packed us off to the station house...

Author: By Charles B. Straus iii, | Title: The Year Off | 6/11/1974 | See Source »

...bail out the domestic fleet, Senator Warren Magnuson of Washington and Congressman Gerry Studds of Massachusetts have co-authored a bill that would extend U.S. fishing waters from the present twelve miles to 200 miles. But, fearing that foreign nations would reciprocate with 200-mile limits of their own, the State and Defense departments as well as some U.S. tuna fishermen on the West Coast and shrimpers on the Gulf Coast oppose the bill, and so it is not expected to pass. New England fishermen stand a better chance of getting help from the U.N.-sponsored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Failing Fleets | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

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