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...director of physical education in the school system. At 12, when his mother died and his father went overseas in World War II, Bayh and his sister Mary Alice moved to their grandparents' farm in Shirkieville. In high school Bayh became a champion 4-H Club tomato grower and decided to study agriculture at Purdue. After two years in the Army, he returned to graduate in 1951. Then he settled down on the farm and married Marvella Hern, a winsome and whip-smart blonde who had defeated him in the national finals of a Farm Bureau debate. They have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Country Ham and Hard Ball | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

...mailbox remains the private property of the individual," says Postal Service Lawyer Jack T. DiLorenzo. "But we do have some control." Yes, indeed. That control began shortly after the 1896 start of rural free delivery. By 1899 Postmaster General Charles Smith was already grousing that "tomato cans, cigar boxes, drainage pipes upended, soap boxes and even sections of discarded stovepipes were used as mailboxes." There followed three quarters of a century of regulation and regularization. Now the owner of a rural mailbox must place it at a height convenient to the carrier, and the box he buys must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Inviolate Mailbox | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

Notice those peculiar markings that are appearing on all sorts of products on store shelves-the striped codes with ten-digit numbers that have rechristened such items as a giant-size box of Tide as 37000-91220 and a can of Campbell's tomato soup as 51000-00011? They are part of an automated pricing and check-out system that food-industry officials hope will one day yield impressive cost savings (TIME, Dec. 30). Though it is still experimental, consumer groups are already opening fire on the system, which they fear will confuse shoppers by eliminating price markings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Creaky, Costly System | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

Giancana's decline began in 1959, when FBI agents planted a microphone somewhere amid the cans of tomato paste and olive oil in the back room of Giancana's Mob headquarters, the Armory Lounge in suburban Forest Park. For six years, agents listened to his most intimate business conversations, learning valuable information about the Mafia's organization and operations. In 1965 Giancana was jailed for refusing to answer the questions of a grand jury about Chicago's rackets. Released a year later, he fled to Mexico to escape further questioning and holed up in a walled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MAFIA: The Demise of a Don | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

...birth and took the frightened Rosenberg boys to live with them six months after the execution. Anne, who died last year, and Abel, now living in Miami, were the best thing that could have happened to the orphans. Abel diverted the boys with stories, inventing characters like Rocky Head, Tomato Nose and a dog named Hungry Soup Bone. He also gave them fierce support. "When the police came at night to take us to the shelter," Michael remembers, "Abel told them to come back in the morning. When they insisted, he said, 'You'll take these kids over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Generation on Trial? | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

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