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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gloria Swanson sleeps with a miniature pyramid under her bed because, she says, it makes "every cell in my body tingle." James Coburn, after he meditates inside his pyramid tent, puts his cat and her kittens to bed over a nest of tiny pyramids, on the theory that the kittens may grow up in a unique way. A Houston doctor put microbes under a pyramid and found that they lived 64 hours longer than ones not in a pyramid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Pyramid Power | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

...FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, from the Ken Kesey novel. The Old Reliable of the Boston stage, and by all accounts still worth seeing. 7:30, matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2:30, at the Charles Playhouse, 75 Warrenton St., Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the stage | 9/27/1973 | See Source »

...FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, from the Ken Kesey novel. The Old Reliable of the Boston stage, and by all accounts still worth seeing. 7:30, matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2:30, at the Charles Playhouse, 75 Warrenton St., Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the stage | 9/21/1973 | See Source »

...Alaskans, before you totally dismiss the conservationists, look at the Great Lakes, the Miami River, the air in Los Angeles, and at Newark and Philadelphia refineries. We "lower 48" have fouled our nest. Please learn from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 10, 1973 | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

Cost overruns are so familiar by now that they hardly raise eyebrows any more. Indeed, Mark Twain once described a congressional appropriation as nothing more than a nest egg to attract further appropriations. But even the most hardened observers of military-accounting practices could not resist a smile when the General Accounting Of ice revealed last week that the Pentagon, while proudly remaining within its handsome public-relations budget of $28 million a year, has actually been spending millions more on such p.r. projects as formation-flying teams, marching bands, military museums and base tours. It estimated the excess spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Overselling the Pentagon | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

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