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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fire a nuclear missile that would blast Skylab to smithereens. The official answer: this is prohibited by international treaty. Refusing to accept that, some enthusiasts tried anti-Skylab measures of their own. Buryl Payne, director of Massachusetts' Institute for Psychic Energetics, used a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., radio station to tie in with 150 other stations and reach some 40 million listeners in seeking a mass psychic push to nudge Skylab into a higher orbit. In the broadcast, listeners were instructed to "relax, visualize yourselves as being in contact with Skylab and then visualize Skylab as moving out into space." Despite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skylab's Fiery Fall | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...Japan, which urged workers to set their thermostats at 28° C (82.4° F). Although the fashion has yet to catch on with the public, Energy Czar Masumi Esaki has been trying to promote what he calls the Sho-ene (save energy) Look-a short-sleeved suit, sans tie, which he wore to greet Carter last week in Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Fahrenheit Eighty (Gasp!) | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...with her ex from time to time. Estelle (Mary Beth Hurt), the most recently separated, is bewildered and scarcely able to cope with the enormity of the experience. An orphan who married an orphan, she had a glowing faith that building a nest would be the golden tie that binds forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Empty Bed Blues | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...called the Jolly Trolley along with a kick line of 25 topless dancers doubling as bridesmaids. A Chicago disco was the setting for a Jewish ceremony with a fog machine filling the room with smoke at the very moment the couple broke the glasses. This week seven couples will tie the knot in front of some 15,000 spectators in the Atlanta Fulton County Stadium. The group ceremony takes place on the pitcher's mound before a Braves game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: More Spectacle Than Ritual | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...Dick Bailey, 38, a salesman, and Linda Sue Leasure, 32, a catering manager, decided to tie the knot during the Kinetic Sculpture Race, a Ferndale, Calif., festivity that draws some 10,000 spectators. Bailey's entry: a carousel-shaped contraption covered with pink, blue and white tissue-paper flowers. Powered by four children walking around the platform, the float broke down less than a block from the starting line. Though Bailey, Leasure and the bridesmaids ended up pushing their contrivance along the 200yd. course, they did get to the finish line- in time for the wedding ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: More Spectacle Than Ritual | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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