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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Camanche, Iowa, drills the seed corn every spring into the black soil of his 550 acres, harvests the heavy yield in the fall and feeds the corn to livestock that he sells. His life is his family and his land and his right to do things his way. C. Lee Mantle of Painesville, Ohio, is retired now from his real estate business. He founded it, saw it grow to a firm employing ten people. In his small corner of this country, it was a glorious adventure. He wants to make sure that that kind of opportunity is preserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Crusade of Riskers and Doers | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

That stand drew protests from Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Hussein bin Onn and Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Lee specifically criticized "countries like Laos" for their "urge to proselytize" and added that "we cannot tolerate interference in the internal affairs of any member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Sri Lanka Summit: Noisy Neutrality | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...Other demonstrators set up roadblocks and stoned trains and buses to prevent workers from going to their jobs in Cape Town. There, as in Johannesburg's Soweto, the tactic failed to disrupt business and industry seriously, but managed to intimidate many black workers. As one Johannesburg worker told Lee Griggs, TIME'S Africa bureau chief: "They scare me. This morning some young ones tried to make me stay in Soweto. 'Do not go,' they said. 'Today we march and we may get shot. You must stay home and be here to bury us.' Nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Into a Season of Smoke and Fire | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

This season Bionic Man Lee Majors will once again try to expand the bionic population. On a two-hour special to be shown Nov. 7, he will provide solace for a 16-year-old boy named Andy who will take a hardy plunge at the ratings. If Andy, whose legs were crippled in a rockslide, can draw strong ratings that night against NBC's special showing of Gone With the Wind, he may be muscled into ABC's winter schedule with his own show. Outfitted with bionic legs, Andy can kick a football 100 yds. and climb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Bionic Plague | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

Make that two more rivals. Every boy needs a dog, and a bionic boy needs a bionic dog. Producer Lee Siegel is mulling that one. Says he: "I would not rule out a bionic dog having his own show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Bionic Plague | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

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