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...life the ten victims were very different from each other. They ranged in age from twelve to 28. One was black. Two were Chicanos. Three were thought to be prostitutes who hustled along Hollywood and Sunset boulevards. Four were drifters. Two were coeds. One was a waitress who, according to friends, was "very cautious" about strangers. Their deaths, however, were frighteningly similar. Between Oct. 18 and Nov. 29, all ten were found sexually molested, strangled and flung down desolate ravines or roadside gullies in or near northeastern Los Angeles. In nine of the murders the bodies were nude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: L.A. Strangler | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...study of users showed that 10% of those who tried the machine and were above the limit decided not to chance driving. But most bar owners and customers consider the machine a gag item, and some even compete for the highest score. In one Des Moines cocktail lounge, a waitress tells of two regulars who tied for the record. "You're supposed to be dead if you get the thing up to .50," says she, "but these guys both scored .49 and they didn't even look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Americana, Nov. 14, 1977 | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...write in tenth grade, but then you don't get to exercise it enough," is an oft-heard lament; so is "They don t push you enough." Senior Brenda Steward is having no trouble fielding trigonometry, chemistry and British literature along with a 30-hour-a-week waitress job at a local restaurant called the Green Bandit. Says she: "Teachers don't assign homework; they don't believe in it." (The teachers' version, however, is that many students will not do homework when it is assigned.) Adds Senior Dennis Campbell: "It's so easy to get through here. I could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Schools Under Fire | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

Such details could be overlooked if the acting weren't so uneven. Regina, the daughter, is written as the center of energy in the children's conflict; but Robin Lane, complete with Barbie Doll face and cocktail waitress hairstyle, gives an annoyingly superficial performance. Her flirtatious manner, exaggerated gestures, even he phrasing, are all much too predictable: she extrapolates the obvious from each line, rather than offering any emotional integrity or depth of characterization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Many Trees | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

...embarrassed-often by the clothes and manners of Sunday-best services. Recalls an Oregon housewife: "I kind of felt put down." Some blacks sense white prejudice. And then there are those whose lives became linked with unacceptable behavior: a woman lately married to a drunkard, a homosexual, a topless waitress in a Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Looking from the Inside Out | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

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