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Most important, the government must vest in one agency the responsibility for waste disposal--which threatens to become a bigger problem when chemical waste policies are viewed this winter. Inconsistent policies and bureaucratic buckpassing has turned a misunderstood situation into a political debacle. As DiSibio says, "They better stop worrying about who's going to be elected in 1982 and start worrying about who's going to be alive...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Wasting Away | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

...rights," and instead accepted the right of all religions to worship as they will. Church Latin, unintelligible and sinister to many, gave way to the vernacular, and even some times to a rather cloying liturgical sweetness: guitar strumming around the altar, folk songs, the priest rigged out in sunburst vest ments that proclaim HERE COMES THE SON. Gone are the Legion of Decency, which prescribed and proscribed movies, and the censorious Index of Forbidden Books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Rise and Fall of Anti-Catholicism | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...cover charge and a two-drink minimum, a female customer can catch a 1-hr. 45-min. show-and usually a pinch of beefcake too, if she feels the urge. The revue begins with Guy Garrett, 24, a former construction worker who parades onstage dressed in a white satin vest and glittery pants. Gyrating to the blast of disco music, he invites women to help him unzip, and for a close he allows a giggling fan to rip off his G string. Unadorned, he leaps into the audience for one last strut, hugging and kissing customers and getting goosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: And Now, Bring on the Boys | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...cost considerably less and are more portable and easier to maintain than most sailboats. They are as safe as surfboards: since the foam-filled board stops dead and floats when a sailor drops his mast in the water, the Coast Guard has exempted the craft from its usual life-vest requirement. Many lifeguards, in fact, are using the boards as lifesaving and rescue crafts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Try to Catch the Wind | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

They have come to watch a duel. The participants: challenger Maria ("Masha") Magdalena Markof-Belaeff [origine russe], who undoes her red cravate before the action commences; and instigator Mark Van Dyke Holmes, sporting sneakers, vest, and blazer in Eleanor (Roosevelt) blue...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: The Dawn Duel: Blueberries At Ten Paces | 5/11/1979 | See Source »

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