Word: rite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diet soft drinks annually. That is 15% of the total U.S. soft-drink market, and has been the fastest growing segment, thanks to heavy advertising and a weight-conscious citizenry. The most popular labels: Tab (made by Coca-Cola), Diet Pepsi, Sugar Free 7Up and Dr Pepper, and Diet Rite Cola. Now producers may be forced to change their recipes, perhaps adding small amounts of sugar-and calories...
...horns, shrieks and stamping feet, while medical technicians wearing vests decorated with red hearts hovered in the wings, alert for coronary victims. The 58th Iowa State High School Basketball Championship for Girls was under way, and TIME Correspondent Richard Woodbury was there to observe the fevered five-day rite. His report...
...municipal freedom" flourishing in a "semibarbarous" country; he was impressed at how ordinary citizens could gather to settle their affairs with "no distinction of rank." Although the town meeting has been declining for decades-a casualty of increasing population and the complexity of issues-it is still an honored rite of March in hundreds of communities. TIME Senior Correspondent James Bell last week attended the meeting in Huntington, Vt. (pop. 825), a town of merchants, workers and small farmers in the foothills of the Green Mountains. Bell's report...
...sultans of Big Labor, a perennial rite of winter is the annual meeting of the AFL-CIO's executive council in Bal Harbour, Fla., just north of Miami Beach. There, at the garish 15-story Americana Hotel, the heads of 34 AFL-CIO unions representing some 20 million workers-about 21% of U.S. wage earners-gather every February to talk strategy under the sun and in sybaritic splendor. TIME Correspondent Philip Taubman attended this year's eight-day meeting and filed this report...
Died. John Hubley, 62, innovative animator and creator of the cartoon character Mr. Magoo; during heart surgery; in New Haven, Conn. While working at the Walt Disney studio, Hubley contributed to many memorable full-length cartoons, including the lyrical Rite of Spring segment of Fantasia. With his wife Faith, he formed a production company in 1955; they made films explaining the works of Astronomer Harlow Shapley and Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson as well as on abstract ideas of psychology, peace, science and democracy. The first of their three Academy Awards was won in 1960 for Moon bird, a joyful cartoon that...