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...wasn't leaving so quickly. Two rides still hadn't gotten me out of the park and I walked through most of Haight Ashbury before I got my first bona fide ride. It was a 62 Chevy pick up, that ran like it had tin cans for pistons but it was driven by a guy who knew just how to ease those fragile parts just one more time around. He was a friendly guy with a beard that ran off of his chin the same way the wires must have run off his distributor cap loose and tangled. He took...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Riding on the Blacktop Rivers | 5/28/1975 | See Source »

...concrete slabs covering the sewer ditches, are falling apart. Like center cities everywhere, Matadi is giving way to the suburbs: the villages which crowd the circle of hills around the city now use shale-and-cement and concrete blocks for building materials instead of woven cane and occasional tin-and-plywood...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: The Sun Never Sets on Empire | 5/28/1975 | See Source »

...tin agreement among 29 countries, which is managed by the London-based International Tin Council, consisting of producers and consumers. (The U.S. does not belong.) The council maintains the metal's price within a specified range, principally by selling from buffer stocks when demand is high and imposing export quotas to restrict production when prices are falling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Stabilizing World Prices | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

Accommodations at Tin City were adequate. But those at Asan were squalid and run-down-and in fact had been condemned a short time before the refugees arrived. At first, four people were forced to share a single blanket on a cold stone floor; few, if any, were issued mattresses or pillows. The grass outside was littered with filth, and water dripped through many of the hallway ceilings. Toilet facilities were primitive and overcrowded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indo-china: Troubled Trips to Safety | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

...eyes. The tornado that sweeps Dorothy to Oz is a dancer whose headgear spouts 100 yards of black silk swirling to the rafters. The Yellow Brick Road is a quartet of lanky dudes in brilliant yellow brick-patterned tailcoats. An armor of beer cans and garbage cans makes the Tin Man. Originally scheduled not only to direct and costume the show but to do the choreography and play the Wiz as well, Holder had canceled out when he encountered "difficulties" with the management. The real problem, he says, was that "they began to have doubts that one man could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Wizard of Trinidad | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

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