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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muppets grow ever more couth. First they danced Swine Lake with Ballet Superstar Rudolf Nureyev. Now, on Nov. 12, they will sing Pigoletto with the incomparable Beverly Sills going trill to trill against the divine Miss Piggy. So far, surprisingly, there have been no pyrotechnics of temperament between the two famous divas. "She may be a pig," says Sills of her costar, "but she's not a boar, although she is a theatrical ham of no small dimensions." Miss Piggy has said nothing about Bubbles; all she does is inscrutably smile about their upcoming duellet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 5, 1979 | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...internationally respected newspapers came within a hairbreadth of dying themselves. Exasperated by chronic featherbedding and wildcat disruptions, the Toronto-based Thomson Organization, owner of the newspapers, suspended publication last Nov. 30. Thomson executives felt they could force the anarchic print unions into line within several months, at the outside, but they underestimated the complexity of the task and the resiliency of their adversaries. A final agreement was not reached until last week, just hours before the deadline Times Newspapers Ltd. Managing Director Marmaduke Hussey had implicitly set for closing the papers for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Return of the Thunderer | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Observer (up an impressive 572,961, to 1,278,819). But the returning papers are buoyed by reader surveys that predict a wholesale return of the faithful when the Times resumes on Nov. 13 and the Sunday Times on Nov. 18. To entice them, the Times is planning to spend between $2 million and $4 million on a promotional blitz. It also will publish special eight-page supplements on major issues of the past year, on developments in the arts and on books. For the record, there will be three eight-page obituary supplements. The Sunday Times, which bought serialization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Return of the Thunderer | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...Tuesday, Thomas J. Mundy Jr, Suffolk County assistant district attorney, said he would prove that the football players, who were in the Zone celebrating the end of the 1976 season, and a group of black men engaged in a series of increasingly violent confrontations in the early hours of Nov. 16 that led to the stabbing of Puopolo...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Second Puopolo Murder Trial Begins | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

...York, meanwhile, Federal Judge Thomas Griesa ordered that Sindona be kept under guard, and set Nov. 26 for the start of his trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sindona Returns | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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