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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more likely that he was born in the previous spring, perhaps during the May conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. The argument supporting this comes from the Bible, Luke 2: 8: "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night." The Judean shepherds were out all night only in the spring. During winter there was no grazing, and the animals were penned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1977 | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...money down, whether it is for $1 office pools or high-roller stakes. It is the biggest day of the year for bookies; estimates of the amount wagered range as high as $260 million. At the Stardust Lounge in Las Vegas, where Super Bowl betting is done legally, fans flock to the windows. Says the lounge's manager: "They'll come here out of the cracks of walls?from Texas, the Midwest, everywhere?to watch the game and bet." The word among bookies on the biggest Super Bowl bet ever made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: THE SUPER SHOW | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Many critics have not taken well to Dayton's movies, calling them "desultory," "terribly trite" and "poorly acted." Dayton is unfazed. In his view, the critics that count are the audiences who flock to his flicks. The professional ones can go to . . . err . . . heck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES: G for Gold | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...RICKARD, 57, a former lumberjack and World War II fighter pilot who sold insurance before joining Hughes as an $80-a-week driver two decades ago. His first job was to chauffeur the flock of Hughes' starlets. He went into the movie business himself with a drive-in theater in Idaho but returned to the Hughes fold after it failed. Rickard is a convert to Mormonism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Keepers of the King | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...sorry streets of the stricken city there was of a sudden great exultation and praise unto the Lord. Young men dreamed lusty dreams, while the elders spake of a day at hand when multitudes would flock from near and far to lavish shekels upon the once-more blessed shore. The place of Atlantis would be born again, said the prophets, as a citadel of many marvels, and it would be called Las Vegas East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: GAMBLING GOES LEGIT | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

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