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...spent the last few years on a prolonged shopping spree. There are no meatless Wednesdays, no food queues, few shortages of any kind. Shiny new appliances, from electric rice cookers to transistor radios, occupy conspicuous nooks even in the homes of unskilled laborers. Television antennas rise everywhere, even over tin-roofed huts. Saigon's greenery has suffered less damage from Communist bombs than from the choking exhaust fumes of Mercedes autos and Honda motorcycles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Saigon's Backfiring Boom | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...less so than when Blue Grass was first created) is a descendant of the traditional music brought by early settlers from England and preserved in the southern mountains. Blue Grass Music bears, both in spirit and complexity, about the same relationship to modern country music as jazz has to Tin Pan Alley pop music. It was originated 30 years ago by one man, Bill Monroe. The story of Blue Grass Music is the story of its creator...

Author: By Fred Bartenstein, | Title: Father of a Music-Bill Monroe | 3/19/1970 | See Source »

...treasure boards of tin cans? they flatten out for their hut roofs...

Author: By City WITHOUT Walls, | Title: No Headline | 3/12/1970 | See Source »

...Tin Drum, Gunter Grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: The Decade's Most Notable Books | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). A twelve-year-old boy casts evil spells on two of his teachers in "The Tin Whistle." Repeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Dec. 5, 1969 | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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