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...over the place, and many of the old ones are getting face lifts. Business is good for them now that network advertising costs so much, is seen amidst a clutter of other ads, and intersperses so much junk viewing. This doesn't mean that print is always loftier-one of the new publishing successes is Soap Opera Digest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: The Well-Tailored Magazine | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Last year John Jerome became a counterculture hero with the publication of Truck, an earthy account of his yearlong effort to rehabilitate a 1950 Dodge pickup. Now he turns his restive mind to loftier topics. On Mountains wittily bypasses the customary because-it-is-there rationale to examine the fascination and terror of peaks and promontories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Looking Up | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Ideally the relationship between man and God should be based not on fear (or punishment and reward) but on a much loftier value (the highest)?friendship. The Creator is merciful, just and loving: He is all-powerful because he created everything. If you have him for a friend, you will always have peace of mind under whichever circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Reflections from Cell 54 | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...forward to moving south. But he won't get home to Paredon, Jamaica, where he raises goats, until next March. This year, as he has done for the past ten years, he will spend the winter in Florida cutting sugar cane ?backbreaking ground-level work that makes the loftier labor of apple picking seem easy by comparison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Doubly Difficult Apple to Pluck | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...Electric Corp. reneged on long-term contracts to supply utilities with "yellowcake" at fixed prices of $8 to $12 a pound, claiming that it would be ruined if it followed through. Now, utilities in the U.S. and elsewhere are delighted to have a new source of supply. On a loftier plane, Fraser said, "The advent of Australia as a major supplier of uranium will make certain that Australia's voice on this most vital problem of international affairs -nuclear weapons proliferation-will be heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Green Light for Yellowcake | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

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