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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As a crop, flower resists frost, has a short growing season, and is less affected by drought than wheat. It also has some drawbacks. Says Farmer Tom Sinner, of Casselton, N. Dak.: "You plant flower because it brings a better return than other crops, but weeds and insects just love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Flower Power On the Plains | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Whether they are model drivers or hot-rod hellions, men aged 16 to 24 are usually socked with screechingly high auto insurance premiums. That discrimination could end if an experiment started in Connecticut last week by Motors Insurance Corp. is adopted by other companies. MIC, owned by General Motors, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Premium Parity | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

The settings are truly lovely-symmetrical Palladian porticoes, marbled rooms with glowing frescoes and statuary, formal gardens opening on cypress-dotted vistas. Losey scatters the action of the opera over every photogenic square foot of them. Characters grope endlessly down pillared corridors, wander around outdoors and are unaccountably set afloat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Only the Mozart Is Missing | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

On the other hand, it may be worth the trip to Toronto to fly Air Canada to London. The food was only half bad, says Ronay, the service super: "We came away in a good mood, feeling that we had been served by crews who worked as a team and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Uncaring Airlines | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

The burly bartender at a neighborhood saloon in the Queens section of New York City offers a shot of John Jameson Irish whisky to a Gaelic-looking stranger. As the visitor tosses it down, the bartender mutters a curse about "the bloody Brits"-and carefully observes the drinker's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Passing the Hat for the Provos | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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