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Word: lana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accommodations with the rest of the world. A growing self-confidence has somewhat softened the Soviet truculence. Such factors may be the best hope for getting the Soviets to take up their pens and bestow their signatures at least on SALT'S limited contracts of nuclear forbearance. ∙Lana Morrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: How to Deal with the Russians | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

Plans for a rail mass-transit system for Los Angeles have had about as much success with local voters as middle-aged housewives have had at the drug counter where Lana Turner was discovered some years ago. In 1968 and again in 1974 the electorate voted down such plans and decided to continue its love affair with the automobile. Nonetheless, a third and more grandiose plan will be tacked onto the June 8 presidential primary ballot in Los Angeles County. It calls for 232 miles of track-almost exactly the same as the New York subway system-to be built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Rail Plan in Autoland | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

More publicized were Hughes' relationships in the 1930s and '40s with well-known stars: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino. Rogers, who claimed he proposed to her, dumped him when she caught him cheating with another woman. Gardner beaned him with a bronze statue at her home after he cuffed her around for seeing another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The women in the Legend | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...this all-American paragon, oozing the sap of maple-sugared kindness? When ABC aired the Howard Hughes story, a made-for-TV film biography of the reclusive millionaire, the protagonist was unrecognizable. When, for instance, Lana Turner anticipated marrying him, she had all her sheets monogrammed HH; Hughes turned her down with "marry Huntington Hartford." A more sinister Hughes emerged from Film Maker Ron Lyon's experience. He had reckoned without his subject. When Lyon tried to obtain newsreel clips of Hughes, the only ones available were of him smiling and waving. Then the insurance company, doubtless aware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 17, 1975 | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

...Perhaps one day Lana or another chimp can act as an interpreter between their world and ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lessons for Lana | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

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