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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many see little to choose ideologically between the two: both suit their conservative instincts just fine. Surprisingly few are holding out in hope of a job or other favor. A number miss in Ford the image of a decisive leader that they perceive in Reagan, and yet they are reluctant to discard an incumbent who they believe has performed passably well in difficult circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARIES: Uncommitted | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

Heavyweight Champ Muhammad AM says he is slowing up at 33, but he is still fast enough to suit one admirer, Photographer-Actress Candice Bergen. After snapping pix at ringside as Ali battered English Boxer Richard Dunn in Munich, Candy rhapsodized: "He's so breathtakingly beautiful, absolutely dazzling. He's just like a mirrored ball. You can't keep track of him while he's dancing around in front of you." Before Ali's victory, Candice won, with the help of NBC, a bout of her own-against German tradition forbidding women a ringside seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 7, 1976 | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

This interim triumph in the face of agonizing pressure was one of precious few highlights in Janet Guthrie's two-week introduction to Indy. From the first day, when American Airlines lost her luggage-driver's suit, crash helmet and all-it had been an uphill battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On the Right Track | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

...cafe con leche with a roll in his favorite cafe. At that moment two men entered, took out some enormous pistols and shot at the senator. Innocent or guilty, what is certain is that the senator was eating a roll when they killed him, staining his white linen suit with spilled blood and cafe con leche...

Author: By Dain Borges, | Title: Epiphanies of Struggle | 5/28/1976 | See Source »

...cuffs, please-at least not on the suit being tailored for Hollywood's newest screen giant. He is, after all, a 40-ft. mechanical gorilla named King Kong, and after months of appalling technical problems, he is almost out of the woods and onto the sets of Producer Dino De Laurentiis' monster movie. While the $3 million Kong endured some final tinkering on his hydraulic hands last week, workers began fitting his horsehair covering onto a wood-and-Styrofoam standin. Once the suit is transferred to the star, the unnaked ape will team up with Actors Jeff Bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 24, 1976 | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

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