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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preservation complexes in Orlando and Pensacola: "At the first auction I paid $4,500 for a real historic bar from Chicago. This year ordinary bars are bringing $45,000. 1 don't know whether it's the total devaluation of the dollar or total inflation, or a general dissatisfaction with shoddy material. Some of this is good, beautifully made stuff." Adds a woman who has recently made a genuine fortune in Western land development: "Out here it's all spend it, wear it, show it, and this stuff makes a wonderful situation for the business person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Joy of Spending | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...Judith Marshall, a young couple from Houston, acquire the entire interior of the Mappin and Webbs Jewelry Store in England for $70,000. Marshall is in the oil business in Calgary, owns a jewelry store there, and plans to open one in Houston. The Marshalls also buy two general-store interiors they plan to put on their farm outside Houston as a sort of produce stand. Singer Dick Clark buys an entire pub. Two local housewives, seized by pure impulse, acquire a drug store interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Joy of Spending | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...shade safer underground than on the surface, but it warned that the very act of, say, taking a car to get to an underground shelter might increase the danger?because the chance of getting hurt in a car accident is greater than the risk from Skylab. As a general rule, space experts suggested, "Do nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skylab's Fiery Fall | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...question no longer began with an if or a maybe. Last week even his top advisers were asking themselves not whether but on what day President General Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle would step down; rumor swirled throughout war-torn Nicaragua that his leave-taking was hardly hours away. Finally, Somoza himself spoke. "I am like a tied donkey righting with a tiger," he said in a subdued voice at week's end, referring to his war with the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.). "Even if I win militarily, I have no future." He thus went ahead and placed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Somoza on the Brink | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday, "It's very hard to say what effect the decision will have. I haven't been following the decisions...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Judicial Decision May Affect Assembly | 7/13/1979 | See Source »

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