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...federally subsidized antipoverty group, does not go quite that far. But last week it filed suit in a state court in Oakland seeking to enjoin the University of California from using state money to develop farm machines. The C.R.L.A. charges that the introduction of more modern mechanical tomato, grape and lettuce pickers will primarily benefit large growers and will cost 120,000 California farm laborers their jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rural Luddites | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...fields were freshly plowed. Banana trees and grape vines were flourishing. But nothing moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare in Jonestown | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...anti-diarrhetic, and throat lozenges, to combat the dust and coal smoke in the air. The F.F. must be prepared in advance for the virtual or entire absence of: air conditioning, ice water, ice cubes, ice cream, poached eggs, hamburgers, French fries, lamb chops, orange juice, cocktails, nightclubs, good grape wine, potable soft drinks (a prevalent banana concoction tastes like carbonated Brylcreem); cigars, low-tar cigarettes and Di-Gel; Kleenex, Band-Aids, shower curtains, shoeshines; and, with no sense of loss, lawns, pubs, sidewalk cafes, casinos, credit cards, commercials, news, Muzak, golf courses, public tennis courts, headwaiters, muggers and prostitutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: China Says: Ni hao! | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...Fiat President Gianni) continuing to lead a campaign to preserve the wildlife of Porto Santo Stefano, the Tuscan coastal town that she serves as mayor. Rome Art Dealer Derna Querel recalls meeting several young members of the Frescobaldi and Antinori wine families who boasted of having joined in a grape harvest, including barefoot trampling of the fruit. In Rome last Christmas, a financially strapped family of the nobility threw a picnic in their palazzo to which guests were invited to bring their own liquor. "They were very casual about it -people were wearing jeans and pearls, and everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN,MIDDLE EAST: The Quiet Life of the Rich | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...candy, so goes a Wall Street analyst's version, was born when a General Foods Corp. chemist mixed a little "Kool-Aid technology" with carbon dioxide and came up with Pop Rocks. Crystalline in shape and so far available in three flavors (cherry, orange, grape), Pop Rocks are made of sugar, corn syrup, milk derivative and artificial coloring and flavoring. When the small crystals of candy are placed in the mouth, tiny chambers of trapped CO2 are activated by moisture. The result: a popping and crackling that delights the kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rock It to Me | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

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