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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What could upset a merger is potential incompatibility between Seawell, 60, a tough former Air Force general, and combative Bud Maytag, 52, a grandson of the Maytag appliance company's founder. The two strong leaders might have trouble working together. But that may not turn into a problem, for Maytag seems ready to get out of the airline business and return to Colorado Springs, where he grew up. National's ups and downs over the years, its labor problems (six strikes since 1964) and the trend toward deregulation and merger all have taken their toll of Maytag's enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Whale of a Deal in the Air | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

BORN. To Julie Nixon Eisenhower, 30, younger daughter of former President Richard Nixon, and David Eisenhower, 30, grandson of late President Dwight Eisenhower: a daughter, their first child; in San Clemente, Calif. Name: Jennie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 28, 1978 | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

Gardener, Irvin Williams has been harvesting sprigs of chives, rosemary, thyme and marjoram to give the summer table a little lift. The First Couple are down to two meals a day as heat climbs. But they have other nourishments, like the pad, pad of the bare feet of Grandson Jamie, 18 months, and Shelby Foote's novel September September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Warblers, Lemonade and Surf | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

DIED. Benson Ford, 59, reclusive vice president of the Ford Motor Co. and chairman of its dealer policy board; of a heart attack; on his yacht, which was docked near Cheyboygan, Mich. Second oldest grandson of Automotive Pioneer Henry Ford, Benson dropped out of Princeton after two years to work in the family company, and eventually headed the Lincoln-Mercury division. But he was happiest behind the wheel of a succession of motor yachts, all named Onika, and partly because of ill health, never played a major role in Ford management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Milestones | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...with its 130 acres attracting 2.5 million visitors annually. Crowds pushing shopping carts stroll through the grounds, consuming heroic quantities of junk food and observing the outlandish garb that customers wear as part of the ritual. Henry Cortez, a robust Mexican American, sports a huge straw hat and tows Grandson Douglas around in a wooden wagon. "This is my flea-market hat," says Cortez, who has been going to the San Jose market almost every weekend since 1960. "And this is my flea-market wagon. I come to visit people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy & Business: Bug-Eyed over Flea Markets | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

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