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...mounted a typewriter on her head, and another sat on a newly acquired office chair. Asked a speaker: "What are our new Cabinet ministers to think when they arrive at their offices and discover they don't have chairs to sit on?" A Tanzanian soldier sported the best memento of all: Amin's military cap, which Big Daddy apparently left behind in his haste to depart from the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Rejoicing and Revenge in Kampala | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...hearings on juvenile delinquency in the mid-'50s-Hodge was never able to get other roles. After Video's demise in 1956, he worked as a real estate agent, a glove salesman and a security guard, among other jobs, finally winding up alone and broke in his memento-strewn hotel room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 2, 1979 | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...Michael Novak. "They're in the playground of the world: single, unattached, self-fulfilling, self-centered. People are trying to make little Disney Worlds of detachment for themselves." For such people, parenthood is an intrusion of responsibility, of potential disappointment and, ultimately, of mortality. The kids are a memento mori...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Wondering If Children Are Necessary | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...season of giving, so bring a memento...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Blessing | 12/15/1978 | See Source »

America's No. 1 mouse and Japan's No. 1 man are old friends. Ever since his tour of Disneyland in 1975, Emperor Hirohito has treasured a memento of his trip: a Mickey Mouse wristwatch. Even on the most formal occasions, His Majesty has been observed wearing his Mickey Mouse. Thus there was dismay in the royal household when the trusty watch stopped ticking, and concerned palace chamberlains rushed it to Tokyo experts specializing in American timepieces. The diagnosis? A new battery was needed. Last week, his hands moving again, Mickey was reunited with Hirohito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 18, 1978 | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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