Word: taj
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economics of gas sales has spurred competition for the big companies from regional chains that go by such names as Raceway (Alabama), Maverick (Colorado) and Fas Gas (Texas). What gasoline men describe as "the Taj Mahal of the self-service" is also an independent: a place in Las Vegas called Terrible Herbst that features 48 pumps, all run by a staff of two. The stations of the future, some oilmen say, may be somewhat like those run by an outfit in Brussels called Nafta, where a motorist punches his credit card number into a computer, then fills up his tank...
...Jonathan Edwards will be there the next night at 7:30, and that exam will already be breathing down your neck so hard you'll wish you had gone to Williams. Why, we may all rightfully ask, is the May Day Festival, featuring Arlo Guthrie, Jerry Jeff Walker, Taj Mahal, Tom Rush, Albert B. Lord, Vassar Clements, Commander Cody, The James Cotton Band, Clean Living, and Zonkaraz being held on May 14? Where? Read the Phoenix, or the ever-popular Harry's Column, or the Onerous Manual for your moped. Todd Rundgren has been rescheduled...
Dylan is almost indifferent to what his neighbors call his Taj Mahal. Says he: "One hundred years from now I won't be judged for the house." He is probably correct. One local geologist believes that the mansion is already slipping into the ocean...
Upcoming 'certs: Jimmy Cliff will have the Charles River to cross when he hits the Orpheum on the 19th of November. The Doobie Brothers and the Alpha Band'll be at the Music Hall November 5--where will you be? Taj and Ry (Mssrs. Mahal and Cooder) will double-boogey into town for a date at the Orpheum on November 14, and Robin Trower will hit the Music Hall on the 18th; that's the night before Jimmy Cliff will be at the Orpheum, in case you forgot. Now Aerosmith, with special guest Rich Derringer, will be featured...
...million) and his eight palaces, four of them with golf courses designed by Robert Trent Jones. When Hassan dies, he expects to be ensconced in the mausoleum he has had built for himself in Rabat, a $7.5 million structure that looks like a cross between a pagoda and the Taj Mahal. Not bad for a onetime playboy prince who cut a sybaritic swath through Paris in the 1950s, lavishly displaying his enthusiasm for women, fast cars and Western clothes...