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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back in the '40s in Los Angeles, we males who wore baggy pants called them zoot suits or, in the case of the trousers alone, drapes. Well, maybe on the modern woman they are saggy or baggy. On us they looked good, or did we really look that ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1979 | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...reporter quickly probed one of Kennedy's vulnerabilities. To scattered boos from the crowd, he asked whether Kennedy's separated wife Joan would participate in his campaign. Smiling broadly, Kennedy turned to Joan, who appeared nervous and replied in a quavering voice, "The answer is that I look forward to campaigning for my husband." Ted led the applause for his wife, and behind them their twelve-year-old son Patrick brushed tears from his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kennedy Makes It Official | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...then if you look at it the other way, 16 incumbents have been renominated and marched on to ultimate victory, which in the murky and unreliable world of presidential precedents is always the most likely event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Frank, I Pity You, He Said | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

There were several soldiers; Philips and O'Shea could not tell from their uniforms whether they were Vietnamese or from Heng Samrin's Cambodian units. They showed their visitors the Independence Monument and seemed eager for them to have a look at Sihanouk's palace. Later some of the plane's crew approached a group of Cambodian soldiers. "How are things compared with a year ago?" one was asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: From Ireland with Love | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...plane with us and gives us the push out the door. Maclaughlin is as sharp-eyed and as brusque as a boot camp sergeant. He spreads his legs, arching and throwing his head back yelling, "ARCHTHOUSAND, TWO THOUSAND, THREE THOUSAND, FOUR THOUSAND, FIVE THOUSAND, SIX THOUSAND, LOOK" he looks to his left heel. "LOOK." He looks to a release on his right pelvis, "PULL". He pulls the release. "PUNCH." He punches open the imaginary auxillary chute: the litany for a jumper after exiting the plane. If the main chute doesn't open after a count of six-thousand, you must...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Stepping Out Over Taunton | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

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