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...Toll booths on highways throughout American remain open all day during the holiday season...

Author: By R. "SANTA" Weisman, | Title: The Crimson Santa Presents | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

AFRENZIED Sherlock Holmes opens his door a crack and peers out at Dr. Watson with sharp, glittering eyes. Years of heavy cocaine consumption have finally taken their toll; Holmes is paranoid, obsessed with the belief that his arch-enemy Moriarty is after him. The Seven Percent Solution, the most recent in a flood of Sherlock Holmes films released in the last few years, depicts a Holmes who still has all of his marvellously keen powers of perception but who has lost his grasp on reality. The detective master-mind who embodies the power of rationality, who penetrates the most obscure...

Author: By Margot A. Patterson, | Title: The 93 Per Cent Problem | 12/11/1976 | See Source »

...whom the bell tolls in and around Hickory Corners, Mich. There is no toll at all for 40 stubborn households. When telephone rates jumped a hefty 54% almost a year ago, subscribers protested by having their phones disconnected. A court upheld the new rates, and telephone company officials have refused to compromise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Off the Hook | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...quake measuring 7.5 struck Guatemala in February, leaving 19,000 dead; the heavily populated Tientsin area of China was ravaged by an 8.2 quake in July, with an unknown death toll also estimated in thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Freezing Shock of Disaster | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

Still, Legionnaires' Disease continued to take its toll. Though evidence implicating the Bellevue Stratford has always been circumstantial at best-for one thing, not all the victims were guests -it was enough to scare off many patrons. Since the summer, the occupancy rate of the "Grand Old Lady of Broad Street," as Philadelphians affectionately call it, had dipped to a disastrous 8% -and losses climbed to $10,000 a day. Even such gestures as last week's symposium did not help. Indeed, the meeting was really more like a wake. At week's end the Bellevue Stratford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The 30th Fatality | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

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