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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whether or not you approve of the dollar-garnished deity, it's their festival, and it's free. And it's fun, festival, and it's free. And it's fun. The Green Line will take you there. Just get off at Haymarket and walk up to Salem St. If you get lost, ask for directions. Or follow the smell or the noise. But if some overbearing food vendor tries to sell you the tripe--an infamous Italian-American delicacy--beware. It's cow intestine...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Feast of Dollars | 8/10/1979 | See Source »

Towards the end The Third World War degenerates into pure fantasy, the pipe-dream of Cold Warrior too old to stay on the front line but too fevered to give up the good fight. China and Japan have formed a "co-prosperity sphere" in Hackett's rosy future, and play no part in the war. Valiant Afrikaaners defend their homeland from the incompetent assaults of Soviet-supplied Namibians and Zimbabwians. As the Soviet drive into West Germany falters, Soviet satellites rebel, soldiers stop fighting, and a high-level coup in the Kremlin leads to a break-up of the entire...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Armchair Armageddon | 8/7/1979 | See Source »

...Marshall Field. They now sell not only skates but also items of rolling paraphernalia like arm and knee pads priced at $5 to $15 a pair and $10 visors that light up at night for safety. Roller fashions are also in demand. Chicago Designer Roberta Jakus' "Roller Rinx" line of satin, spaghetti-strap tank tops and shorts and jackets are selling at $43 per outfit. One manufacturer is preparing a line of skates that look like cowboy boots but carry a city slicker price tag: $200. A current fashion at roller rinks is old skate keys color-plated with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fast Rolling | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...last year. But Ford hung tough. Its 1979 Lincoln Mercury Continental Mark V weighed a defiant 4,779 lbs., was more than 19 ft. long and got 12 m.p.g. Now Ford, too, has yielded. The final Mark V, last of Detroit's gas-gulping monarchs, came off the line at the company's Wixom, Mich., plant on June 8. Last week the plant turned out its successor, the Mark VI. It is 14 in. shorter, 800 lbs. lighter, gets 14 m.p.g., and is somewhat boxier in shape. Yet all is not lost for big-car lovers. Beside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Last of the Big Ones | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Captives of Janet Frame's previous fictional spells will appreciate just how difficult, for the line between secret exultation and madness is typing-paper thin. Frame knows both sides of the line: as a voluntary mental patient in her native New Zealand and an artist whose originality and stunning gifts have secured a small loyal audience. An antipodean J.D. Salinger, she avoids interviews, and has even been known to flee a face-to-face meeting with her own publisher. In ad dition she has the odd distinction of having written under her real name while living as Janet Clutha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Diary of a Mad Widow | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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