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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the Hamburg Opera in 1910, four years later with the Vienna Opera, where she created several roles for her friend Richard Strauss, and in 1934 with the Metropolitan. Notable among her 100 roles were her yielding Sieglinde in Die Walküre, her devout Elisabeth in Tannhäuser and, most outstanding of all, her matchless Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. At 62, she reduced a Town Hall audience to tears when she announced her retirement, quoting the Marschallin, who looked at her aging face in the mirror and said: "It is time." In her later years in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 6, 1976 | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...commercially available and used for smoking, either already prepared as cigarettes or sold loose for "roll your own" and pipe addicts. Many are come-ons containing nothing stronger than backyard greenery, but Siegel has found 44% to contain psychoactive substances that can alter behavior and sometimes make the user...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Legal and Unsafe | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...voodoo people chasing him." He wandered barefoot in the woods for hours, over nettles and thorns that lacerated his feet and left them bloody, but felt no pain. He set fires to keep away the voodoo people, which led to his rescue by a forest ranger. A longtime LSD user, he told the doctors that his tea high was the worst ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Legal and Unsafe | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...Convention service charges" on all equipment being installed by the New York Telephone Company. Thus, a six-button phone that normally costs $29 is $127; a switchboard that is ordinarily $542 is $1,161; a unit that cost one major user less than $4,000 in Miami, and will be $5,000 in Kansas City, is $7,000 in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bite of the Apple | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

Repeatedly and erroneously, Reagan has insisted that the Canal Zone is "just as much sovereign U.S. territory as Alaska." In fact, no treaty ever granted the U.S. complete sovereignty. Washington has been paying an annual user fee of $2.3 million to Panama, and that country's General Omar Torrijos Herrera, a military dictator, has been maneuvering to restrain outraged Panamanians from rioting over this vestige of Yankee imperialism. Wrong-headed as it is, Reagan's jingoism on the canal has apparently struck a nerve among parts of the electorate, arousing post-Viet Nam sentiments that the U.S. should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Now the Republican Rumble | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

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