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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since last April, though, he has not been back. He prefers now to work in the flower gardens around his comfortable three-bedroom home in Grosse Pointe Park, read books and play with his daughter's six-year-old son. He keeps in shape with twice-weekly games of golf and tennis. He finds himself "taking better care of the lawn, the house, the cars." He and his wife Helen, 63, make occasional treks to Colorado and Florida, but he does not share all his activities with her. Says he: "We have made an effort to have separate interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Pains and Pleasures of Being Thrown Out at 65 | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...watched as other passengers filled all of the 345 seats. There were a lot of young people from everywhere-Colorado, Illinois, Tennessee, Georgia, Brazil, Canada. For the most part, they were budget-minded but not poor. Said Bill Wedun, 26, the son of a Boulder, Colo., dentist: "I heard Freddie's trip was the cheapest way to get to London. The first half of your life you generally have more time than money, and the last half more money than time. I plan to spend both accordingly." A cockney with three sons declared, "All I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: To London for 4 | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...Zamora's parents believe their son has been mentally disturbed since he witnessed a close friend drown two years ago; they even sent him to a therapist ten days before the crime. The Zamoras will also testify Ronald was a confirmed TV addict who spent at least six hours a day staring at the screen; he refused to eat unless the television was on and sometimes sneaked out of bed to catch a late movie. His favorite shows: such cops-and-robbers series as Kojak, Baretta and Starsky and Hutch. According to Mrs. Zamora, Ronald is such a Kojak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Did TV Make Him Do It? | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...should a Clancy face stiffer entrance requirements than, say, the son of a more prosperous black family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Doctored Program | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

Under Tartuffe's snaky spell, Orgon accedes to the disruption of his household, disinherits his son, signs away all his property, affiances his daughter (Swoosie Kurtz) to Tartuffe, and sweeps his wife into Tartuffe's sweaty-palmed lechery in a seduction scene made hilarious by Tammy Grimes. This is madness, as Moliere knew. As he also must have known, it is a disturbing, distorting mirror image of Christian divestiture - giving away all worldly goods, cutting one's closest human ties to achieve a holier state of grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Snaky Spell | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

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