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...unusual sight of red and tan kilts worn by 21 members of the amateur Stuart Pipe Band and the equally strange wail of bagpipes drew passers-by from Plympton St. and the largest crowd of Quincy House students and affiliates ever to attend the event...

Author: By Marilyn L. Booth, | Title: Dunn Exorcises Ghosts, Spirits In Ceremony at Quincy House | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...tile manufacturing company. Natco was renamed Fuqua Industries and became the corporate base for J.B.'s expansion program. By 1968 he had acquired more broadcasting stations and companies in photofinishing, mobile homes, lawnmowers and trucking, which all together rang up sales of $223 million. Next came a sewer-pipe company in 1970, but he sold it because the directors of the N.Y.S.E. did not like the fact that he owned most of the shares, leaving few in public hands. The sale netted J.B. $16.5 million, which helped finance his entry into the coal, oil and natural gas and real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITIES: Those Brash New Tycoons | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...need more parking," says Rothman. "Already, we've lost big stores like Almy's and Kresge's, and without good parking facilities any improvements around here will be pipe dreams...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: There's more to Cambridge than Harvard Square | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...effusive man sat puffing on a pipe and talking with a friend, interrupting his conversation every 30 seconds or so to shout greetings to passing motorists. One of the motorists was a Cambridge policeman in a patrol...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: There's more to Cambridge than Harvard Square | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...this week some factories will go on compulsory half-rations. "There are no baths, and clothes don't get washed so often," says Cardiff Housewife Elizabeth Davies. "I used to use the washing machine every day. Now it is once a week, and we pipe the dirty water from the machine into garbage bins and keep it for flushing lavatories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Let the Flowers Wilt | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

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