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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wealthy man (estimated worth: $3.1 million) and president of the Atlanta-based National Bank of Georgia, the state's fifth largest, Lance is fond of assuming the guise of an "aw-shucks" country banker. But, says one of Carter's top aides, "Bert is smart, he's tough, he's a good manager and he understands politics-and those are the things Jimmy wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: An 'Aw-Shucks' Banker for Jimmy | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

This year the aesthetically ridiculous, commercially brilliant brainstorm surfing blithely atop the Zeitgeist's seventh wave is a little number called Charlie's Angels, starring sexy Farrah Fawcett-Majors, sweet Jaclyn Smith and smart Kate Jackson. The series is about delicious ladies who get into scrapes that threaten life and virtue in the course of working as operatives for a private detective with such a passion for anonymity that he is never seen on camera. The show is not just a winner but a certifiable phenomenon. Seldom has a brand-new entry broken into Nielsen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Super Women | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...SMART MONEY (whoever that is) would have you buy a piece of Mark O'Donnell instead of, say, Douglas Aircraft or Gulf Oil. During the time he went to school at Harvard, O'Donnell was known as the best and certainly cleverest of student playwrights. The last play he wrote here was his senior thesis, called Summer Work. The Harvard Premiere Society decided to put it on the stage, mounted it in Dunster House Dining Room, and a sweet work...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Sleep-away Paradise | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

...hints to get you started. The Marxist intellectual could scrutinize the ethnic bigotry and confusion, really very naive, of this pair of street-smart, macho New York adolescents. It's kind of culturally telling, you know, how they free associate from Turks and Indians to Native Americans and that most pious national holiday, Thanksgiving, then face off over whether or not their old ladies hump gobblers. The sociologist from HEW will tell us why Murph doesn't have anyone to go home to and devise training programs for sweet lady social workers so they don't give knives (for whittling...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Horovitz's Complaint | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...wife, who suffered a breakdown during the ordeal, objected. As Dean described the report he was to write, Mo had asked: "That's not true, though, is it" "No, it's not." "Then, John, you shouldn't write that report. That's not very smart." Recalls Dean, in two incriminating sentences: "She was right, but her innocence annoyed me. She seemed so far removed from all the shadings of lies that make up political life. " Ed Magnuson

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Expedient Truths | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

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