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...barely legible, while John Kennedy's was so erratic that he seldom signed his own name the same way twice. Though Jimmy Carter's hand is clear, it seems almost juvenile when compared with the elegant, flowing scripts of early Chief Executives like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Nowadays, Writing Is off the Wall | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

That is quite an achievement, considering the troubles that the immigrant Vitis vinifera* has had surviving in North America. The European vine did not fare well in chilly Northeastern climes. In fact, making a potable domestic wine was quite possibly the only undertaking in which Thomas Jefferson ever admitted defeat. The most grievous blow of all was the Prohibition era, in which the wine industry died on the vine. It has not been helped since by many Americans' two-fisted addiction to beer and hard liquor or aversion to alcohol in any form (dry and blue laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Young Bacchus Comes of Age | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

Submarines, Quarks and Radiolsotope Dating--Prof. Richard A. Muller, University of California, Berkeley; Jefferson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jan. 10-Jan. 16 | 1/10/1980 | See Source »

...cups of fruit juice and found out someone had put acid in it. I wanted to kill him." Onstage The Who sliced through the flower power like a chain saw in a daisy garden, played with an intensity that took the show away from such Mallomar bands as the Jefferson Airplane. Abbie Hoffman scrambled up to join the proceedings, and Townshend responded, as he recalled later, by "kicking [his] little ass in a proud rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Outer Limits | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...stated that alternative beverages were being promoted at the University of Virginia. The Jefferson Society has directed me to inform you that the society does not have an alternative beverage policy, nor will it institute one. The society was founded in 1825, and has a long tradition of alcohol consumption. Teetotaling is a flagrant slap in the face of tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1979 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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