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...wanted to be a lightning rod for American arts and crafts, Joan Mondale said during the campaign. As the Veep's wife, she has been an electric presence on the museum, gallery and crafts-fair circuit, logging 40,000 miles on her cultural missions. Just as zealous on the home front, she decided to hang handmade ornaments from 60 U.S. craftsmen and -women-cornhusk dolls, beaded Indians, crocheted icicles, free-form tin stars and batik crèche figures-on the 12-ft. Christmas tree in the vice-presidential mansion. "We will use them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: On the Record | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...simply was not used in the most effective way. For example, I believe Larry Brown deserved to be the starting quarterback, but to watch him run the football--a must for the quarterback in the multiflex arrangement--made me cringe almost as much as I did while watching Rod Foster, subbing for Eric "Endzone' Crone, try to throw the ball...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: One Spectator's Unwanted and Unimportant Views | 11/16/1977 | See Source »

...your car is not working, stay in Boston and tune in the Midnight Special (Ch. 4, 1:00 a.m.). Among the musicians appearing are Lou Rawis, Rod Stewart, Harry Nilsson, and K.C. and the Sunshine Band...

Author: By Steve Schorr, | Title: The Thinking Man's Tube | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

...right. The CDC has now confirmed that 24 people have died of Legionnaires' disease in 19 states since the Philadelphia epidemic. It also suspects there may be as many as 2,000 undetected cases a year. Though scientists believe that the culprit is a slow-growing, rod-shaped (as yet unnamed) bacterium, they do not know where it lives in nature, how it spreads or why it is so lethal. Only one thing seems sure. The bug was almost certainly around, even if misdiagnosed, long before the Legionnaires gathered for their ill-fated convention in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Return of the Philly Killer | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, Actor Mark Hamill scooted over Tatooine in a weathered aircar. In his next picture, he settles for more down-to-earth transportation. Stingray stars Hamill as a high school hot-rod builder and Annie Potts as a hippie hooker who jumps into his passenger seat. Hamill got a few bruises from his Stingray stunts and a brief scare from a California cop. Says Hamill: "We were horsing around on Van Nuys Boulevard, and a cop came over and told us to get out of the Stingray. When he saw the camera and realized we were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 17, 1977 | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

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