Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cover: A Hughes album, showing him as a child in Houston (top left); dancing with Ginger Rogers in 1936 (top right); at a 1939 airfield press conference (upper center); arriving at Glendale, Calif., airport in 1939 (left); in one of his own racing planes in 1935 (center right); appearing at 1947 Senate committee hearing (bottom left); as he might look now (bottom center). Photographs by A.P. and U.P.I., drawing for TIME by Dan Lawler...
...with their wives and children, were visiting the vessel once known as the Queen Elizabeth, which was anchored just outside Hong Kong's busy harbor. Suddenly the ship caught fire. Most of those aboard escaped without injury while fireboats fought the rapidly spreading blaze. Next day, with her upper decks collapsed and her massive steel hull buckled like so much soggy cardboard, the ship, still burning, keeled over. The Queen had died...
Superrocker Mick Jogger of the Rolling Stones used to sing one song called Ruby Tuesday. But it was a Wednesday evening when Mick went to the dentist with a small ruby and asked him to insert it in his upper right incisor (one of the few sound teeth he has left). Now he is not so sure he likes the effect and is thinking of having it removed...
...envelopes this month. Despite the well-publicized tax relief voted by Congress, take-home pay will be reduced in many instances. The total federal tax bite will indeed be less than last year, but the rates of tax withholding have been changed, with the result that people in the upper-middle and higher brackets will be hard-hit. For example, the amount withheld from the wages of a married worker with two children who earns $250 a week will remain virtually unchanged at $30.50. But for an employee earning $400 a week, the withholding will rise from...
...crippling. There are bright but purposeless pages. Le Carre takes far too long to find his narrative's focus. His hero, a rich pram manufacturer who discovers Life, sometimes wambles about in the state of blithering idiocy invented by Evelyn Waugh to let the air out of the upper middle class and reproduced more easily and less funnily since then by each successive Englishman to write a light novel...