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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yarborough and his rivals still drive as hard as they did years ago on the half-mile clay tracks of the South, which is why they are millionaires today. They put on a spectacular show. In the Daytona 500 last February, Yarborough and Donnie Allison bumped fenders twice, and then crashed. While the national TV audience watched in fascination, the two drivers, joined by Allison's brother Bobby, settled their dispute dirt-track style: with a fistfight. Yarborough and Donnie Allison had another scrape at a later race before they struck a good ole boy truce. Says Yarborough: "Donnie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beware These Sunday Drivers | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...became a symbol of integrity to colleagues and the public, eventually left the network in despair. Much later, Bill Moyers told Paley that he wanted to quit CBS and return to public broadcasting. Paley asked what it would take to keep him. Moyers said a regular primetime news show, "much like Murrow had." Paley's response: "I'm sorry, Bill, I can't do it any more. The minute is worth too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Names That Make the News | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...noted lack of sexual inhibitions. If, as a cherubic young schoolboy, Francis Vincent has been cast as the innocent child in "The Emperor and His Clothes," he would sooner have made unflattering remarks about the emperor's genitals than about his lack of apparel. Always fond of extended "comedy show" tunes, Zappa has recorded rock's kinkiest scenarios on wax with nary a batting of his beady eyes. (Those of unsalvageable purient interest may refer to the Live at the Fillmore East "white album," or the equally memorable Overnight Sensation classic, "Dinah-Moe-Humm.") Believe it or not, parts...

Author: By Peter Sanborn, | Title: Brain Police and Mental Floss | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...spun at Boston-Boston any night now. In this song, some lame guy decides he'd rather be a fool and get laughed at than not dance at all. "I got it all together man / With my very own disco clothes,hey! / My shirts half open, t' show you my chains / 'N a spoon is up my nose." What a dummy. Dance to that refrain! "I'm a dancin...

Author: By Peter Sanborn, | Title: Brain Police and Mental Floss | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...some ways it was a perfect race," Kristen Laine, six seat, said. "You'll never see conditions that good again. It was incredible, and we had a really good warm-up. We wanted to beat B.U. badly because they beat us in the Nationals last year. We wanted to show our supremacy again...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: B.U. Scuttles Radcliffe Lightweights | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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