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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...others range from false advertising to ill-fitting hairpieces. One woman complained of a backache that came from wearing a bra supposed to increase her bust size. No complaint is too small: the unit once got back a 200 soda-bottle deposit for a small boy from his neighborhood grocer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Blue Van | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...unusual for a President to falter as he approaches midterm, and this has to be especially true in an era of unprecedented media exposure. The once fresh face and crisp, new manner have be come familiar as the local grocer's. What may have been entertaining idiosyncrasies, like Truman's salty language, Eisenhower's chronic golfing and Carter's reflexive grin, can become slightly irritating. No longer larger than life, as on the triumphant eve of Inauguration, the mid-term President starts looking all too vulnerably human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Problem Of How To Lead | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

...balcony of what had been our apartment was hung with wash. It had once seemed so high to me, but now I could almost reach it with my fingers. I glanced into the stores. Where were Eli the grocer and his wife, Zeldele? Just as Eli was tall, quick, agile, sharp, and argumentative, Zeldele was small, slow-moving, dull, and good-natured, Zeldele had to be told twice what it was a customer wanted. For her to put out her hand, take a piece of paper, slice off a chunk of cheese and weigh it could take a quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Singer's Song of the Polish Past | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

DIED. Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, 83, Prime Minister of Australia for an unprecedented 16-year span (1949-66), who founded the Liberal Party and took a firm stand against the "downward threat" of Communism; of a heart attack; in Melbourne. The son of a small-town grocer, Menzies always had "a respect for the rights of the top dog." He was never a popular leader, but he towered above his colleagues as a magnificent orator and consummate politician. Nevertheless, his first term as Prime Minister, from 1939 to 1941, ended with a sweeping victory for the Labor Party. He made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 29, 1978 | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

After her husband has kissed her goodbye, Alice A. concentrates on the screen for a readout of merchants' comparative and prices markets. at the local Following eyeball-to-eyeball consultations with the butcher and the baker and the grocer on the tube, she hits a button to commandeer supplies for tonight's dinner party. Pressing a couple of keys on the kitchen terminal, she orders from the memory bank her favorite recipes for oysters Rockefeller, boeuf a la bourguignonne and chocolate soufflé, tells the machine to compute the ingredients for six servings, and directs the ovens to reach the correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Living: Pushbutton Power | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

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