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While growing up in Missouri, Wilson used to try to flatten dollar bills under his pillow before taking them off to the bank. With that same tightfisted search for no-wrinkles efficiency, he has engineered Boeing's success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Engineer of Success | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

...most memorable scene of the movie, though, is a pillow fight between Harry and Sybylla that starts in the stairwell of Harry's mansion and becomes a glorious pursuit and battle in the adjacent fields. The two end up hurling the pillows at each other, collapsing and panting on the grass. The scene is replete with sexual tension and is wholly emblematic of their frustrated love...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: An Almost-Brilliant Movie | 3/21/1980 | See Source »

...ruling is narrow; it states that mates still cannot be compelled to testify against each other if they do not want to. It also allows spousal testimony only in the case of conversations that were not intended to be private (pillow talk is still protected), or when the husband or wife has actually witnessed criminal acts of the other. Moreover, the high bench is not really breaking new ground with the Trammel decision. Over the past several years, 26 states have gone at least as far as the new federal rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Mate vs. Mate | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...woman of great charm and elegance. It remembered her glittering marriage to House Speaker Nicholas Longworth and her years as the capital's reigning grande dame. But most of all it remembered the malicious wit that prompted her to keep in her upstairs sitting room a pillow embroidered with the message, "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Malicious Wit | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...stocking super-sheets. Macy's in Manhattan has some by France's Porthault that have hand-sewn scalloped edges and are made of 100% cotton, but might as well be gold: a queen-size set costs $645. Uptown at Bloomingdale's, a set of cotton sheets, pillow cases and comforters by Italy's T&J Vestor goes for $5,000. Big-ticket bedding is "a fashion statement," says Bloomies. It could also serve as a bank statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Odds & Trends: Odds & Trends | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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