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Pittsburgh could win 105 ballgames. Seriously. Put this starting rotation in your pipe and smoke it: John Candelaria, Bert Blyleven, Jerry Reuss and Jim Bibby. The aroma at Three Rivers will be fragrant, despite the loss of al Oliver and Rich Gossage...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Play Ball! Pro Baseball Dusts Off This Week | 4/4/1978 | See Source »

...Norman of Harborcreek, near Erie, Pa., who decided three years ago to follow the example of many of his neighbors and dig his own well. For $3,000 Norman hired a water-well driller, who struck gas at only 874 ft. Norman's cousin, a plumber, rigged a pipe to carry the gas into the house, where it fuels a hot-water heater, two heating stoves and a cooking stove. Norman estimates that the well has cut his fuel bill by as much as $800 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Backyard Bonanza | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...March 9 press conference personally announced that U.S. and West German officials were negotiating a package of dollar-support measures, leading money traders to think that something big was coming. The negotiations were conducted by transatlantic telephone calls, mostly between Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon, a reserved, pipe-smoking, self-made millionaire, and Manfred Lahnstein, State Secretary of the West German Finance Ministry, who is one of Bonn's fastest rising whiz kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Too Little, Too Late for the Dollar | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...intelligent artist in Northern Europe, after the work of Picasso and Braque became internationally known, could sidestep it. But the expressionists were not fundamentally interested in the neutral subjects of cubism: the quotidian landscape of cafe table, brown guitar, pipe, bottle and chair. Franz Marc, who died in the trenches at 36, turned to the cubist vocabulary of facets, prisms and sliding rays to express his pantheistic view of nature, the Eden of happy animals: "We will no longer paint the forest or the horse as they please us or appear to us, but as they really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Anguish of the Northerners | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

During Ross Barnett's administration Finch served in the legislature and voted for every piece of racist legislation that came down the pipe. His appeal to blacks came only after he realized the voting strength of blacks in Mississippi, and his motives fall into question. Furthermore, the unification of black and white factions of Mississippi's Democratic Party, while admirable, was well under way when Finch was elected; he was lucky enough to come along at the right time. Finch would be easier to believe if he did not keep reminding poor whites of his stand with Ross Barnett...

Author: By Guy T. Gillespie, | Title: Barbecues and Rhetoric | 3/21/1978 | See Source »

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