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...given him a checkup and pronounced him fit, and so did Comedian Flip Wilson, who came to the party as Nurse Geraldine in a red wig and white uniform. Nobody minded that a little fun was made of the President. On the walls there were cartoons of his spill on the steps of Air Force One when he arrived in Salzburg last June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: Ford in Command | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

...looks like a church turned bingo hall. The Ernest Tubb Record Store is only a dingy Woolworth's--lines of cheap cowboy boots and tumbled boxes of western shirts, old George Wallace Speaks records, trick glasses that look like they're full of beer but when you pretend to spill it on someone the beer stays in because there's a false...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: Nashville Cats | 7/22/1975 | See Source »

...land is richer through the Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, euphimisms for preserves for recreational vehicles. Fecund beasts, they spill across the blacktop in strained, sluggish twists, painting darkly on the snow-rimmed shoulders...

Author: By Edmund Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, and an Elk Head | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

...resort-town whatsit shops, where summer visitors unload old paperbacks, a good used thriller is rarely in stock. Biographies, gothics, sex novels abound. But whodunits tend to linger on in vacation cottages until, in a welter of unglued clues, they spill apart. This summer at least four volumes will be read to shreds by season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crushers and Subgumshoes | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

...community has reason to be sensitive about offshore oil exploitation, it is Santa Barbara, Calif., scene of a disastrous oil spill in 1969. But last week the voters of Santa Barbara County, by a narrow 35,500 to 34,700, turned down a chance to keep oil development out of their area. In a referendum, they approved construction of a $30 million plant to process oil and natural gas from new offshore sources. An important factor in the vote was the threat by the plant's proponents that the project would be built anyway-in offshore waters beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Week's Watch | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

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