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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Withered Garden. With monthly salaries ranging from $96 for unskilled employees to $144 and up for skilled workers, Cuba's per capita income is among the highest in the Third World. Because the regime has been willing to go into debt-or simply print new money-to "pay" for social programs, Cubans spend only 3% to 4% of their salaries for housing (6% for modern apartments); education and medicine are free. But worldwide inflation has made imports so expensive that Cubans have little to buy. New rationing rules allow citizens to purchase just one ounce of coffee a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Waiting for that Yankee Dollar | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...shopping cart, a housewife watching the soaps and chatting on the phone, and a seductive figure lounging on a mattress "a la Molly Bloom," as the artist says. Molly & Co. are up for sale, and Millett hopes that they will be just the thing for a backyard sculpture garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 9, 1977 | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...Williams points us back to pagan nature with the Hemlock family -Daddy Tim, hunter, farmer, "maker of things"; Mother Eugenia, keeper of the kitchen garden and hearth and the two Hemlock children, Son Arn, 9, and Daughter Jen, 7. This is the family primeval, whose only contact with civilization is the annual visit of the Traveler, who trades lead shot, gunpowder, needles, salt and flint for the Hemlocks' superbly crafted knives and moccasins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Noble Neanderthals | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...closeup view of the canvas. Now he sees Bobick posing with his Italian girlfriend, with his dog, running on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Like Rocky. This is all because Mr. Duane Bobick is going to fight Mr. Ken Norton on May 11th in Madison Square Garden. Long John also remembers Ken Norton. Norton is that movie star who made some guy named Ali sweat to hold onto his crown. But Bobick is 38-0, the magazine says. Bobick KO'ed Chuck Wepner, the Bleeder from Bayonne, in six rounds. Joe Frazier is training Bobick, teaching...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: A Bookies Delight | 5/6/1977 | See Source »

...decided "Pong" was not suited for Him, but He thought Adam down in the Garden of Eden, who was getting pretty bored himself having nothing to do all day but eat forbidden fruit, might like the game. But Adam had no one to play with either so God created Eve out of Adam's rib so they could play pong...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: Underspin and Funding Trouble Ping Pong Team | 5/5/1977 | See Source »

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