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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

That's an azalea, or I'm not from Decatur. Why, there's nothing "lily" about it. Yes, sir, I'd know an azalea if it was dressed in a clown suit, and an azalea is just what you've got under that CALLA LILY caption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 22, 1976 | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...little left except his smile and a shoeshine. Lounging on a bed in blue slacks and a black-and-white check pajama top, Reagan watched the returns on TV at the Sheraton Hotel in Rock Island, Ill. When Ford's victory was certain, Reagan changed into a blue suit and blithely bounded into the coffee shop to tell reporters: "We're all delighted. We've challenged an incumbent who has thrown the whole load at us-all the big artillery there is-[and yet] we are still getting close to half the vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARIES: The Ford Bandwagon Rolls | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

Throughout the campaign Yablonski and his attorney, Joe Rauh, tried to involve Secretary of Labor George Schultz and other Labor Department officials in monitoring the election. They refused, saying it was outside their jurisdiction until the election was over. Rauh filed an $18 million suit in Washington, D.C., in order to illuminate Boyle's shady campaign practices. By the time the suit came to trial, it would be too late...

Author: By Joe Dalton, | Title: The Yablonski Legacy | 3/20/1976 | See Source »

...hired one of those professional pie-throwing agencies to hit Mrs. Blum with one of their confections last May. Mrs. Blum hit back, pressing charges against the two pie pitchers, who pleaded guilty to assault and were fined $50 each. The pie-galled Mrs. Blum also brought a civil suit claiming she suffered a burning sensation in her eyes, had to quit her job and became so nervous she had to see a psychiatrist. Now the seven jokesters have agreed to pay her $5,000, which presumably gives her reason at last to lick her lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Briefs | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...blow-by-blow account of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre that taxed his publisher, McGraw-Hill. Investigations showed that some 12,000 words of The Memoirs had been lifted more or less directly from a 1940 book about Wounded Knee. McGraw-Hill settled the plagiarism suit, but the chief was unfazed. He promptly updated his show-business career, exploiting his new-found notoriety on TV talk shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 15, 1976 | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

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