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Elvis Presley Boulevard, a wide strip of used car lots, fast food restaurants and gas stations, leads to Graceland. By noon the rising temperature is well into the 90s and ambulances are carrying away those who have succumbed to the heat while crowding in front of the ornate plantation-style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hound Dog Days in Memphis | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

Not since the 1959 Cuban revolution has Florida's glittering gold coast experienced anything quite like it: almost daily landings, from Key Biscayne to Palm Beach, of rickety wooden boats, some with homemade sails and tree trunks for masts. All are packed, gunwale to gunwale, with Haitian refugees carrying their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Haitians Are Coming: The Haitians Are Coming | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

As with fauna, so with flora. Dried leaves, cacti, moss, shrubs, tree trunks: the vegetable kingdom was there in quantity. Usually these pieces were mock-scientific-prolix classifications of fruit stains or upside-down plants at the Dutch pavilion, or, at the French, Roy Adzak's archaeological pastiche of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: It's Biennale Time Again | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

Anyone who spends any time at the beach has seen scenes like the one capture by Peter Rappoli--three adults talking at the water's edge, the women in skirted bathing suits, men with just a little too much stomach hanging over the edge of their trunks, and the sky...

Author: By Susan H. Goldstein, | Title: Bodies in Bronze and Twilight | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

The conservatory was not always such a garden of delights. It was completed in 1902 with Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Morgan money. But like the neighboring streets in The Bronx, it eventually fell victim to the city's financial woes. By the '60s, hundreds of the 17,000 glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Blooming Bronx | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

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