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...questions--however impressive the book's photograph of Robert Earl Hughes. "Heaviest Human of All Time"--are so readily referred to simple ocular evidence. Both McWhirters were unsuccessful Conservative candidates for Parliment in 1964, and Norris is particularly opposed to confiscatory income taxes ("Did I say confiscatory? 106 per cent! That's beyond confiscation!") Did the brothers' social and political background help inform their eloquent list of the perquisites available to U.S. Senators, the highest paid legislators in the world? And in other cases, such influences may have been praiseworthy effects. If a pub debate about "Greatest Mass Killings" turned...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: The Men Behind the Guinness Book | 3/19/1975 | See Source »

...Heaviest Human of All Time...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: The Men Behind the Guinness Book | 3/19/1975 | See Source »

...party worked underground. Despite years in prison and exile, Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal, 60, Minister Without Portfolio in the provisional government, has become the best-known politician in the country. The Communist program is relatively moderate, calling for agrarian reform and nationalization of banks and insurance companies. Its heaviest support comes from workers and tenant farmers in the impoverished Alentejo region in the south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Shaping a Dynamic Future | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...instead to crush them by force. The same day, Eritrean guerrillas -armed to the hilt by Libya, Algeria and other militant Arab powers-ambushed and burned seven fuel trucks 30 miles from the Eritrean port of Assab. Two days later, they destroyed an Ethiopian army column, then launched the heaviest assault on the provincial capital in the 13-year history of the revolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Appointment in Asmara | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

...companies are lavishly promoting their rebate programs. Chrysler, which is saddled with the heaviest backlog of unsold cars and was first to begin offering rebates, is spending one-fourth of its $50 million annual ad budget on a series of video spots featuring TV Pitchman Joe Garagiola in a carnival setting urging viewers to hurry, hurry, hurry to their nearest dealer. Lincoln-Mercury commercials have Green Bay Packer Coach Bart Starr sincerely touting Ford's $200 to $500 giveaways. Dealers round the country are jumping in with their own brands of salesmanship and showmanship-some of them bizarre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Detroit's Gamble to Get Rolling Again | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

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