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...tradition, Memorial Day starts the American summer. Beaches, amusement parks, resorts welcome their biggest crowds since the previous Labor Day. The roads are jammed with city families streaming out to picnic areas or campgrounds. Next weekend, however, the stream may be more of a trickle, and some who venture forth may even be stranded, unable to find a gas station that will fill their tanks for the haul back home. Memorial Day could mark the point when the gasoline shortage of 1979 starts to hurt nationwide-and when Americans finally realize that the nation's growing addiction to undependable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Gas: A Long, Dry Summer? | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...Picnic at Hanging Rock. Orson Welles, daily at 4, 6:05, 8:15, and 10:15 p.m. Weekend matinee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: .... FILM .... | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

...companies have set up rent-a-boat fleets along the rivers and canals. For an average $550 per week, not including food and fuel, in July and August ($300 offseason) a family crew of four can drift through the region at 4 m.p.h., tying up along the way to picnic or sightsee. Local tourist offices list furnished houses renting from $175 to $550 a week for a family of four. Top price for a double room in the Château d'Igée is $45 a night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Europe: Off the Beaten Track | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...Picnic at Hanging Rock. Orson Welles, daily at 4, 6:05, 8:15, and 10:15 p.m. Weekend matinee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: film | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

...Picnic At Hanging Rock. Peter Weir's metaphysical mystery about the disappearance of several adolescent girls from a Victorian boarding school is often hilariously overdone, but the subject is eerie and the idea has potential...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Just Because You're Paranoid... | 4/26/1979 | See Source »

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