Word: jims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important decisions were being made abroad at the oil summits, TIME correspondents in the U.S. were sounding out federal policymakers, oil executives, striking independent truckers and hard-pressed motorists. Boston's Jeff Melvoin got the closest view of long lines and short tempers by spending a day at Jim Harrington's Exxon station in nearby Burlington, Mass...
...public hearings on the plan held in five cities, many citizens criticized Carter's plan and proposed energy-saving alternatives, including investment credits for the installation of more efficient cooling and heating systems. "The President's 80° proposal is intolerable," declared Houston Mayor Jim McConn. "With Houston's high humidity, it would cause the teak in Jones [symphony] Hall to fall off the walls, the glue binding books in the library to crystallize, clothing in department stores to mildew and blood donors to faint." He claims that his alternative-setting thermostats at 76° F, starting...
Muppets by Jim Henson, Frank...
...sells ice cream at a fair, and Kermit chooses dragonfly ripple. Milton Berle runs Madman Mooney's Hubcap Heaven, a very used car lot, and Steve Martin is loathsomely realistic as a hostile waiter. Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy also make a brief appearance, one of their last. Jim Henson, the tall, skinny creator of short, froggy Kermit, has made a gallant gesture in dedicating the movie to Bergen's "memory and magic...
...side. Then the soldier stepped back a few paces and calmly took aim, and shot the correspondent behind the right ear, killing him. Out of sight near by, Interpreter Juan Francisco Espinoza was also murdered. The grisly episode was filmed from the back of the van by ABC Soundman Jim Cefalo and Cameraman Jack Clark, who were not molested...