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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite a catch. The mysterious depositor was Michael G. Thevis, 46, who once described his Atlanta-based $100 billion-a-year empire as "the GM of pornography." Thevis controlled one of the nation's largest networks of adult bookstores, X-rated movie theaters, and peep-show machines. Seven months before, Thevis had escaped from a minimum-security jail in New Albany, Ind., while serving 8½ years for arson and interstate transportation of obscene material. He was held without bail; police also arrested a companion, Anna Jeanette Evans, 40, who was waiting for him outside the bank, and charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Killing for Smut | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...AAAS may begin publishing a new general interest science magazine aimed at the general public, Mosteller said. AAAS, the world's largest science organization, already publishes Science Magazine, a more technical journal...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: Biostatistics Professor Elected Science Association President | 11/22/1978 | See Source »

...seems unlikely that the fiery Cleary or any of his too-oft dissapointed seniors will be denied when the 1978-79 edition of Harvard hockey faces off at Dartmouth tonight. The varsity boasts 16 returning lettermen and the largest number of freshmen on the big club since the eligibility rule of four years...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Hopeful Icemen Open at Dartmouth Tonight | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

Superlatives are never exactly in short supply in the advertising business, but the news that came out of the world's largest ad firm last week really was a stunner. Announcing the biggest merger in Madison Avenue history, the Interpublic Group of Companies, the Manhattan-based agency holding company that is the industry's General Motors (1978 billings: $1.9 billion), announced that it was acquiring SSC & B, the U.S.'s eighth largest agency (billings: $750 million), for an undisclosed price. The acquisition of SSC & B (formerly Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles) would boost Interpublic's combined billings to more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Merger on Madison Avenue | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

Enter the jolly trio of Sandro, a rich, glossy Italian count; Jenny, a golden-haired English aristocrat; and Colly, a wisecracking American who enjoys one of his nation's largest inherited fortunes. Relaxing in Istanbul, they stumble across the huge drug operation run by Mustafa Algan Bey, ostensibly Turkey's premier dealer in precious carpets. Their adventures take them in and out of jail cells, dungeons, buses, trucks and steamers and across the length and breadth of Poppyland. About the only peril they do not indulge in is erotica. However, Scotsman Ivor Drummond's dippy novel could also serve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skuldruggery and High Technology | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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