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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Country Rock Singer Jerry Lee Lewis owed the feds $165,093.12 in back taxes, and the feds were tired of waiting. That's why a posse of IRS agents suddenly showed up at Lewis De Soto County, Miss., ranch last week and seized a $68,000 Rolls-Royce, a Cadillac Eldorado, a Corvette Stingray, a Lincoln Continental, a Jeep, a '56 Caddy, a '35 Ford, a '41 Ford convertible, a tractor and five motorcycles. "I'm sure it's a breakdown in communications and something will be worked out," moaned the singer. "You know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 12, 1979 | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...marches into a New Mexico diner one morning in 1968 and proceeds to hold both the hash-slinging employees and the dyspeptic customers hostage. Teddy's aim is really not to rob or murder his captives but to humiliate them. He forces a haughty middle-class tourist (Lee Grant) to bare her breasts; he makes cruel fun of the diner's crippled owner (Pat Hingle); he tells a fat young waitress (Stephanie Faracy) that she is doomed forever to spinsterhood. By the time that Teddy departs, his victims have been stripped of their selfdelusions. Meanwhile, the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Out to Lunch | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Chrysler President Lee Iacocca repeatedly denies that he has been pirating former colleagues away from Ford, which sacked him in July. In fact, he makes his denials with all the sincere innocence of Captain Kidd. Last week, smiling broadly, he announced that the Kenyon & Eckhardt ad agency was quitting Ford after 34 years to take on the $120 million Chrysler account. It was the largest account switch in U.S. history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Better Idea? | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...skills go, Lee wants to see Widerman improve his defense on his feet...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Dedicated Grappler Has Bright Future | 3/9/1979 | See Source »

...When it comes to competitive match situations you have to rely on reactions, and the only way that a wrestler can expect to develop the proper reactions is through knowledge and drilling and Paul Widerman is learning to combine the two successfully," Lee said...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Dedicated Grappler Has Bright Future | 3/9/1979 | See Source »

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