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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Braintree, Mass., Sunoco Station Manager Bruce Weir was laboring over his books at 6:15 a.m. "I saw a fellow pull up to the pump in a late model Chevy Malibu and I went out and knocked at the window and I said, 'I'm sorry, sir, we don't sell gas till 7.' I started back and got two steps from the door when I felt a big bang on my left leg. I grabbed my leg. Below me was a bottle of Heineken's, half full. Now I walk backwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hours of Waiting To Fill the Tank | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

Poor pulchritudinous Elizabeth Ray, 36, the only aspiring actress who was ever non-type-cast. Ray went into show biz after flopping as a non-typist for powerful Ohio Congressman Wayne Hays. Both Ray and Hays lost their jobs following revelations of their great and good friendship. Ray has tried since to make it in the theater. Last week she opened at Manhattan's Riverboat in a nightclub act that was, just possibly, worse than her typing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 2, 1979 | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...scientific treasure, providing insights into Afghanistan's even remoter past. It contains two halls whose flat roofs were supported by 15 square columns; the altar in the larger room shows traces of ash. No one knows who the builders were, what they were burning or where they ultimately went. (One theory: they may have been Aryans, who spoke an Indo-European language and who later decamped to India.) Says Sarianidi: "The temple may yet tell us something about those people, who otherwise have left nothing behind but shards of painted pottery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Golden Nobles of Shibarghan | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

While in the army, Shinagel made friends with someone who went to Oberlin College; Shinagel transferred there after two years of service in Korea...

Author: By Wyatt Emmerich, | Title: Summer School Poobahs Fit Classic Harvard Mold | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

Soon afterward he went to Union College, only to be eventually lured back to Harvard when he was selected to his current post over 300 other candidates...

Author: By Wyatt Emmerich, | Title: Summer School Poobahs Fit Classic Harvard Mold | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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