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One of the top-grossing movies of the fall was Midnight Express, a true (well, partly true) story of American College Student Billy Hayes' 1975 escape from a Turkish prison. One of the surprise critical successes of 1978 was the movie life of Rock Singer Buddy Holly, who died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Flood of Film Biography | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Since it opened on Memorial Day weekend, Resorts International's casino in Atlantic City, has been a greenback gusher, grossing $119.3 million-a take bigger than that of any Nevada gambling house. But last week it seemed as if the well might run dry. New Jersey Attorney General John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Risky Hand | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

DIED. Charles D. Tandy, 60, Texas industrialist who crafted a small leather business into a multimillion-dollar conglomerate; of an apparent heart attack; in Fort Worth. During World War II, Tandy noticed that disabled sailors liked leather-craft, and started marketing scraps and tools to hospitals through his father'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 20, 1978 | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

The 30% of U.S. farms classified as medium-sized or large take in no less than 90% of all cash receipts from agriculture. At the top of the scale, farms grossing $100,000 a year or more are increasing ?to 162,000 last year, from 23,000 in 1960...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New American Farmer | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

To say the least. Bonnie and Clyde became a classic of '60s pop culture and the year's highest grossing film. Beatty became an international culture hero. Visiting France after the movie opened there, he found that "people everywhere were dressed like Bonnie and Clyde; it was the pervasive theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warren Beatty Strikes Again | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

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