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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretty, but my secret is that I am pretty like everyone is. My husband loves me for this but doesn't know it. I have a pink mouth and plucked darkened eyebrows and soft bangs over my forehead; I know everything, I have no need to learn from anyone else now. I am one of those girls younger girls study closely, to learn from. On buses, in five-and-tens, thirteen-year-old girls look at me solemnly, learning, memorizing...

Author: By Elizabeth R. Fishel, | Title: Books The Wheel of Love and Other Stories | 12/8/1970 | See Source »

...moved into a Florida-style villa in one of Bangkok's heavily American suburbs and started to style himself as a budding Castro. For many months, as he told TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud last week, he and his group of aging Burmese exiles lived "from hand to mouth." Then, some time last summer, funds started coming in from "individual friends," who are said to include Swiss financiers and Hong Kong Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma: Voice from the Jungle | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

...church. After perhaps a dozen revolutions, one set of parents plucks their beloved bundle from a pod proudly emblazoned with a screaming, claws-out eagle, the stars and stripes, and the words "Cong Killer" on the side-and stuffs a thick wad of pink cotton candy in his mouth as a reward for not throwing up in his very first ride at the midway...

Author: By Timothy Carison, | Title: Americans The Sacrifice of a Generation | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

Martha's trademark is her mouth, literally and metaphorically. Agape with laughter and framed in dimples, it dominates the Washington social scene?cocktail parties, state dinners. White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martha Mitchell's View From The Top | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...Party Pack Five-Fringed Balloon Squawker is simply a balloon with a small metal noisemaker attached. The problem, as one irate parent noted, is this: "My daughter, aged four, did not take the mouthpiece out of her mouth when she let the air out, and the metal piece that makes the noise shot down her throat. She started to gag and turn blue. Fortunately, she had just had dinner and the gagging made her vomit, forcing out the piece of metal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Consumerism: Danger in Toyland | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

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