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Two years before the oil crisis, for example, Alan Greenspan, a leading consultant and former chief presidential economic adviser, was warning us about it, joking that King Faisal's picture would soon be on all the oil storage tanks along the New Jersey Turnpike. That instinct proved to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter from the Publisher | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

DEWITT: Anything with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. You think I'm joking, right? No, I love those Hammer things. Horror of Dracula: erotic as hell. Fangs into big-busted women in low-cut night gowns...Dracula's a fun guy. They're bringing him back in a new movie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Many Masks of DeWitt | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

During this frenzied activity, there were touches of black humor. Someone noticed a case of unopened Heineken beer. Deciding it would not be a good idea for alcoholic beverages to be in evidence when the teetotaling Muslims reached the second floor, embassy staffers drank the beer. "Happy Valentine Day," someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Yankee, We've Come to Do You In | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Although the Viscount crash increased white Rhodesians' defiance, it also deepened their feeling of encirclement. Joking references to the Kariba-Salisbury air route as "Flight SAM-7" that were voiced in Salisbury after September's attack were not repeated last week. Indeed, whites' feelings of vulnerability were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Again, Death on Flight SAM-7 | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Nevada's conservative Senator Paul Laxalt obliquely noted two of Reagan's image problems as he guided the Californian on the Hill. "You're not talking about a right-wing nut with horns out of his ears," said Laxalt, "but a responsible conservative whose age may be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Big John: Back and Galloping | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

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