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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their cars. Some chatted with other motorists or bought food and drink from enterprising kids working the lines. But growing anger and frustration all too often erupted in name calling, fistfights, occasional stabbings and shootings. While a gas-station owner in Freemansburg, Pa., rushed to help his bleeding wife, who had been accidentally struck by a car waiting in line, other motorists filled up their tanks and drove off without paying. In Levittown, Pa., in an outbreak originally caused by truckers demonstrating against high diesel fuel prices, some 2,000 motorists and thrill-seekers clashed with the police in three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: And the Gas Lines Grow | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Kissinger did his best to quash rumors of a secret mission when he arrived in Cairo, accompanied by Wife Nancy and Son David, 17. Modestly describing himself as a "private citizen," he insisted that he was "not here with an agenda." His trip was actually prompted by the decision of Hebrew University to give him an honorary doctorate, which he will receive this week in Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Henry's Shuttle | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...lands in Maine. Methyl mercury, used to soak lumber, gets into the fish, which is later consumed by animals and humans. The poison primarily affects the fetus, causing nasty mutations, one of which--a huge, snorting, blood-soaked pig (or something)--menaces federal health investigator Robert Foxworth, his pregnant wife, Talia Shire, and assorted noble Indians and opportunistic lumber executives...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Beast in All of Us | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

...only 24 when he completed the Pietà now in St. Peter's, only 26 when he began his famed David for Florence. The sketches done at this time demonstrate his incredible instinct for monumentality, acquired, as he said, with the milk of his wet nurse, the wife of a Tuscan stonecutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 41 Survivors | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...buyer for Bloomingdale's; Daphne, the Golden Girl, hides her epilepsy from her friends, marries a Harvard jock and has a mongoloid daughter; Chris, the shy romantic, marries a homosexual; Emily, the rich Jewish girl, dreams of med school and settles down as a doctor's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

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