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...Control. Perhaps his most successful action to date has been an amnesty for the collection of illegal firearms. So far, 278,000 guns and more than 1,300,000 rounds of ammunition have been turned in?astonishing figures in a land where restaurant and nightclub signs used to invite patrons to "check your guns." The much-needed gun control and a midnight to 4 a.m. curfew have already resulted in a significant reduction in crimes of violence, as well as late-night traffic accidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Life in a New Society | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

...landed cavalry officer, who does her obligatory nude scene on the staircase of an immense, frigid Adam country house; she must also be a suffragette, which gives Russell much opportunity for lumpen-sexist travesty by having her do a song-and-hop number about votes for women in a nightclub and then, at Gaudier's demand, drop her knickers onstage. Around 1912, the real-life Gaudier was commissioned to do a portrait bust of a Major Smythies, who - considering the time and place and the modernity of Gaudier's work - can hardly have been a fool. Russell turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Erratic Bust | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

Quicksilver, Boz Scaggs, and Estus. I never could stand Quicksilver, and I've never heard of Estus, but I'm half tempted to go just to hear Boz, one of rock's unsung heroes, mix country, rock, blues, and nightclub music. The rest of the show plays as a tune-up for Dead freaks. October 31st at the AQUARIUS. 7:30 and 11 p.m. Tickets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Music | 10/26/1972 | See Source »

...bought them. That's when I first got the idea of selling neon fixtures for use in the home." It took Partner Romanoff longer to succumb to neon, but now he too is an incurable addict. Recently he suffered through "this terrible old Ida Lupino movie because every nightclub they went into had these fantastic neon signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Neon: It's a Gas | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

...Athens, meanwhile, her stepfather Aristotle Onassis played host at a roistering party for his son Alexander, 24, Actress Elsa Martinelli, Odile Rodin (widow of Porfirio Rubirosa) and four other intimate chums. The evening ended in a tumultuous traditional session of plate smashing on the dance floor of the Neraida nightclub. "I lost count of the plates," said a witness, "but it must have been an Olympic record." Theoretically, the shattered plates could get Onassis six months in jail: the Greek government outlawed the custom in 1969, and Attorney Nikolaos Galeadis promptly filed a complaint against Onassis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 25, 1972 | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

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