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Pointe Noire, The People's Republic of the Congo--I was riding across a bridge in Pointe Noire on a Sears, Roeback one-speed that belonged to one of the ship's engineers. The jeans I was wearing were three years old and the camera in my hand was a...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: The Sun Never Sets on Empire | 5/28/1975 | See Source »

The bridge was nicely symbolic, too. It spanned a ravine that divided Pointe Noire into a city and a village. The city was where the seamen were, sitting in the wicker chairs and on the foam pads beside the Atlantic Palace Hotel's swimming pool, as obsequious white-coated waiters...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: The Sun Never Sets on Empire | 5/28/1975 | See Source »

"He was a real gentleman, just as congenial as he could be," reported California highway patrol Captain Otie Hunter, after Henry Ford II, 57, had been arrested for driving left of center on a street near Santa Barbara, Calif. By Ford's side was pretty, red-haired Kathleen DuRoss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 10, 1975 | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

Night after night Nureyev makes a reckless expenditure of resources that he claims casts off the restraints of the body. Supported by a handpicked, high-caliber company that includes Principal Ballerina Merle Park of the Royal Ballet, Modern Dancer-Choreographer Louis Falco and members of the Paul Taylor Dance Company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Barefoot Nureyev | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

As the epicenter of the auto industry's disaster, Detroit has been struggling with the nation's highest urban unemployment rate: 11.8%. Although its streets are decorated for Christmas, and stores, bars and restaurants are busy, an almost palpable anxiety hovers over the city and its gilded suburbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RECESSION: Gloomy Holidays--and Worse Ahead | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

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