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...secure as long as we keep this place as a getaway. If the funkiness goes, everything goes." Those opposed to further fast growth lost a big battle just last week when voters in all of the Keys, which stretch 100 miles into the gulf from Florida's southern tip, overwhelmingly approved a new $42 million water pipeline from the mainland that some warned would open the floodgates of growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Key West: The Last Resort | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

With temperatures in Cambridge just right for a bikini-scene with Charlie's penguins, this weekend provided the perfect opportunity to ignore Horace Greely's sage advice and instead take a tip from upstart John Belushi--Roadtrip...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg and Laura E. Schanberg, S | Title: On the Road | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

...with 85 Senators, drank tea with 80 Congressmen and chatted privately with Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd and House leaders. The Vice Premier repeatedly told his congressional hosts that Peking will not use force against Taiwan, unless it has to. "If they refuse to negotiate," he asked House Speaker Tip O'Neill, "what are we to do?" But Teng promised the Senators and Congressmen that after reunification, Taiwan can retain its capitalistic economy and even its armed forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Teng's Triumphant Tour | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...president of the Pacific Stock Exchange four years ago to become a professional blackjack player. He is good. Too good for the casinos to handle. Uston is known as a "counter," because he can keep track of the cards so well that he can determine if those remaining will tip the odds in his favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Catch-21 | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...House Speaker Tip O'Neill's ancestors in Ireland, potatoes were a dietary staple, the only means of survival. The potato blight struck, and they migrated to America. So the side dish that O'Neill discovered at the fashionable Prime Rib restaurant in Washington boiled his ancestral blood: fried potato peels at $2.50 a portion. "Two-fifty!" he exclaimed. "And there's no potato...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Small Potatoes | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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