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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tony Lada Sextet--Berklee Performance Center, 1140 Boylston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: April 26- May 2 | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

...Fiat 124, sells for $7,850-not too much above the price of an average U.S. 1978 model, but three times the average annual Soviet wage. About a third of Soviet auto production is for export, largely in the form of a version of the Zhiguli named the Lada. Thus delivery delays for domestic Soviet auto buyers can run to a year or occasionally even three to four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ivan Behind The Wheel | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...Buyers in tailored overcoats roam among the aging Fiats, Opels, Czech Skodas and Polish Warszawas, checking out the odometers and the prices, which are listed on hand-lettered signs stuck behind the windshield. On a recent Sunday, for example, one man was trying to sell his 1977 Lada (a Soviet-built Fiat), with 6,000 kilometers on the clock, for $11,000; new-when available-the car sells for $5,570. "It's crazy," said one visitor to the car mart, adding, "a lot of things are like that in Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Wheeling and Dealing | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...cloud sufficiently close to one another that they are held together by their mutual gravity. As a result, a huge pocket of condensed gas, trillions of miles across, is formed at the edge of the larger cloud. In a model proposed by Astronomers Bruce Elmegreen and Charles Lada of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, shock waves from the ignition of earlier massive stars help create the conditions for the birth of other stars from the same cloud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STARS Where Life Begins | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...early '20s. Along with Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, the book became a popular symbol of the antimilitarism and distrust of glorious causes that flourished between the wars. Published in the U.S. in 1930-with Švejk spelled Schweik-the book, illustrated by Josef Lada, became a bestseller. The editors of that day discreetly excised more than one-third of the text, because of Švejk-Schweik's scatological expressions. This new version by Sir Cecil Parrott of the University of Lancaster translates every excremention that Švejk is prone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Czech 22 | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

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