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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Meyerhoff to acquire Spectacular Bid, has been a consistent winner around Maryland tracks, but he has had little experience with a major stakes champion. While other trainers in this year's race are Derby regulars, Delp has never before attended. Says he: "The only thing I'll miss is watching the Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Gun-Metal Gray Rolls-Royce | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

Everything fell, and Miss Sasaki lost consciousness. The ceiling dropped suddenly and the wooden floor above collapsed in splinters and the people up there came down and the roof above them gave way; but principally and first of all, the bookcases right behind her swooped forward and the contents threw her down, with her left leg horribly twisted and breaking underneath her. There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. --John Hersey, Hiroshima...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: The Price of Paranoia | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

Tamed years ago by the building of Ross Barnett Dam and Reservoir four miles north of Jackson, Miss., the Pearl River has been a placid, peaceful stream. But last week unwary residents along its banks scrambled to get out of the way of its onrushing water. In some of Jackson's finest neighborhoods, owners of $100,000 to $200,000 homes frantically heaved furniture and other possessions onto their rooftops as the river spilled 25 ft. over flood stage and lapped at the eaves. Residents in boats actually had to look down at nearly submerged street signs to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Pearl Proves Costly | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...everything wrong with our culture." He says that he and Brickman in their original script intended to make a direct comment on everything that they loathe about modern chemical, mechanized and ideological distractions. Though a few of these were lost in the final cut, it is hard to miss Allen's meaning. He does offer some tentative solutions to the issues he raises. One is contained in the character of the young girl, Tracy, played affectingly by Mariel Hemingway, 17, Papa's granddaughter. She is alarmingly direct and uncomplicated in her statement of love for Davis. His obsession with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Woody Allen Comes of Age | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...philosophical comments about her life and work and ideas on it. And to make sure I was aware of their new talent. Warner Records sent me a postcard (they must have only one picture since they put it on the postcard too) telling me to be sure not to miss Rickie when she appears on Saturday Night Live in early...

Author: By Eric B. Friea, BOYCOTTING ALL WEEK, | Title: Making it on Their Merits | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

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