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...game was a hard-fought contest, especially in the late stages. Lacy's blast in the seventh gave the Dodgers a 4-3 edge. The Red Sox regained the lead in the opening of the ninth with a pair of doubles by Doug Griffen and Andy Merchant and a Ramon Aviles single...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smith, Dodgers Blast Boston, 7-5, With Clutch Rally | 3/12/1977 | See Source »

...Latona Merchant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 7, 1977 | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...amounts to 18% a year. Debtors may withhold payment of a bill they believe to be incorrect, and the creditor must explain the billing within 90 days. A credit cardholder is liable for only $50 in purchases that someone else charges on a lost or stolen card. If a merchant or lender turns down an application for credit, he must say why. People may not be denied credit because of sex, race or national origin. A bank, finance company or other lender that buys an installment contract from a merchant-in legal parlance, a "holder in due course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: MERCHANTS OF DEBT | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Freddie Laker-he never uses his full first name Frederick-was a poor kid who got rich by seeing new possibilities in air transport. The son of a merchant seaman who deserted the family when Laker was six, he has been hooked on flying machines ever since as a kid he saw both the Hindenburg airship and a Handley Page biplane skimming the sky over Canterbury Cathedral. He quit school at 16 and began his aviation career by sweeping floors and making tea at a flying-boat factory. He eventually went on to become both an R.A.F. pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Skytrain: I'm Freddie. Fly Me' | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

...tankers as small as 20,000 tons and a satellite monitoring setup that would keep track of tankers and other ships up to 200 miles offshore. Brooke is pushing for similar legislation and argued that if such a system had been in existence in December the Argo Merchant could have been spotted-and warned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Demolition Derby at Sea | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

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