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Costing only about 200 each to make, they are sold on the streets for about $1.25. A distributor with the latest tape can make a neat profit of $50 a day. Excerpts from the Ayatullah's hit recordings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Ayatullah's Hit Parade | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...seek sanity and solace on the other side of the aisle, alas you seek in vain. Carter is getting more and more unsettled as Jerry Brown nudges into the race more and more openly. Besides having an edge toward the right over Carter due to his neat turnaround on Proposition 13, plus his call for a Constitutional amendment mandating a balanced U.S. budget, Brown has Carter worried over the religious issue. Carter may have the support of the Fundamentalists, the Born-Again folk, but Brown taps the Tao, culls the Zen support, rides the whole neo-Eastern-religious-cultists-pseudo...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Once More With Feeling | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

...change Harvard actually find themselves faced with a much more difficult problem: making sure that Harvard does not change them. The trick becomes one of accepting the education the institution offers without surrendering to the arrogant complacency it breeds. It is, as they say, quite a neat trick...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly president, | Title: A Parting Shot | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

...cocaine distribution capital of America today is probably Jackson Heights, a quiet, middle-class residential section of Queens in New York City, within walking distance of La Guardia Airport. Despite the elevated train tracks over Roosevelt Avenue, the neighborhood is neat and clean and, except for those in the drug trade, safe. At present 200,000 Colombian immigrants live there, most of them working in garment factories or running small legitimate businesses. But in the early '70s, half a dozen Colombian gangs, a network of perhaps 1,000, established the connection there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Colombian Connection | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...remake a happily remembered old movie. There is an irresistible urge to improve it, expand it, stamp it with the personalities of the remakers. So it is with the new, all-new version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which was just fine, thank you, as a cheap, neat, slightly loony sci-fi horror picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Twice-Told Tale | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

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