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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least 150 times. When his spirits were high, he sang aloud time and time again the lyrics of that jazz hit, Hey-Baba-Rebop. He drank only Poland mineral water bottled at the spring in Maine. It had to be in quarts?he refused to drink water from pint bottles. His Flying Dutchman-like wanderings from country to country cost him an estimated $ 150 million per year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...short, it was the milkman. He was a strapping fellow with two quarts regular, four skim and a pint of buttermilk. In the ensuing tumble they made a gallon of egg nog and two ice cream bricks. Another result of the wrangle was a fine little boy who was born speaking high-school French. For respectability's sake Cheryl has always tried to claim that I was in some way responsible for little Andre's occurrence, but I know this to be a falsehood. For one thing, no one in my family has ever been interested in picking up empties...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Candy is randy but pasta is fasta | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

...MOST IMPRESSIVE work and O'Donnell's greatest luck came with the children who played the campers. Their performances were natural, warm, restrained. Sam (Christopher Stewart), Stewart (Max Levine), and Roger (Michael Sloane) were all terrific. David M. Thomas as J.T. deserves some sort of long-distance half-pint Tony Award...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Sleep-away Paradise | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

Throwing a sweater, a toothbrush, a Nat Sci textbook and a pint of Jameson's Irish Whiskey into a duffel bag, I headed out the door under the cloud of that typical all-nighter feeling. It was not to be a typical day, though, as I relaized upon stepping out into the grey early morning...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Yale Game: Soc Sci 2 and Irish Whiskey | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...down-sizing their cars for 1978 and later years. GM will reduce the size of its 1978 intermediates, then its 1979 compacts. The smallest cars will have front-wheel drive to eliminate the transmission-train "hump" that decreases back-seat leg room. Next spring Ford will trot out a pint-size Lincoln called the Versailles and in another year will be bringing over its subcompact Fiestas from Europe (TIME, July 12). In 1979 both Ford and Chrysler are expected to introduce new full-size models no larger than their 1977 intermediates. American Motors has a subcompact even smaller than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: For '77 an Amazing Shrinking Act | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

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