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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shaped island, stretching 100 miles from the Mexican border to Corpus Christi, is either undeveloped dunes or federally protected national seashore. But at the island's southern tip is South Padre Island, a town of 700 permanent residents and, on weekends, as many as 50,000 sun seekers. Only 20 miles from Mexico via the causeway to Brownsville, South Padre has a comparable latitude-and, partisans assert, a more congenial climate-than Miami. Says former Mayor John Austin, a retired Marine Corps major and avid fisherman: "I really think the possibilities here are unlimited." Not surprisingly, the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Building Castles on the Sand | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...shirts, beer chests and Frisbees, along with the reddening student bodies that came with them. There were young families from Texas and Oklahoma, and from as far away as Colorado. There was the weekly jetload of Canadians brought by Suntours of Toronto. And there was room enough in the sun for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Building Castles on the Sand | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Chloroflourocarbon is the chemical name for gases composed of chlorine, fluorine and carbon that have come to be known simply as flourocarbons. The chlorine has been found to deplete the earth's protective umbrella of ozone in the stratosphere, increasing the planet's exposure to the sun's ultraviolet radiation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fluorocarbons Banned Totally After Two-Year Phase Out | 4/14/1979 | See Source »

Mike Royko, Chicago Sun-Times columnist, accepting the role of a crooked alderman in a TV film: "Never having seen an honest alderman, I wouldn't know how to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 9, 1979 | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...current hours (shown below) are inadequate. Mon-Thurs Fri Sat Sun Lamont 8:45 a.m. to midnight 8:45 a.m. to 10 p.m. 8:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. noon to midnight Hilles same same 8:45 a.m. to midnight same Cabot 9 a.m. to midnight 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. 2 p.m. to midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's Your Opinion? | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

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