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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With long, lordly wo-o-ofs, cheery B-flat chirps and an occasional deep commanding harrumph, the glistening silver serpent curls through a land its ancestors helped define. It may not inhabit the terrain much longer. Like the Furbish lousewort and the snail darter, the Southern Crescent is an endangered species. The aging Crescent is the nation's last lavish, privately run, long-haul passenger train. But its owner, the highly profitable and efficient Southern Railway System, claims to have lost $6.7 million last year on the Crescent's Washington-New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Southern Crescent Rolling Toward Summer | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...Princeton, afer McOsker hit the first wo batters he faced (he had four hit batsmen on the day), the Tigers apparently decided that they would wait until the second game of the doubleheader to give Harvard problems. Game of Friday, April 29: 123 456 789 R H E HARVARD 000 010 002 3 8 1 NAVY...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Crimson Nine Sweeps Tigers, 6-0, 7-3 | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

Heavens to Geppetto! Carlo Collodi's 1883 children's classic, The Adventures of Pinocchio, had incurred the wrath of citizens in the Japanese city of Nagoya. Calling themselves Pinokio Wo Arau Kai (Association to Wash Pinocchio), they demanded recall of 19 Japanese editions of the book available in stores and libraries. Their argument: Pinocchio stresses "discrimination against disabled unfortunates" and must not "be read by our children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Nose Out of Joint | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...least mark found its place in a (to us) bewildering set of classifications, each with a name: lutestring stroke, olive (pit) stroke, spring-silkworm-spitting-silk stroke; hanging-creeper dots, rat-foot dots, and some 21 kinds of ts'un or "texture wrinkle," including something called the tan-wo-ts'un or "pellet (as dropped into mud) whirlpool (eddies) texture." If this sounds pedantic, it should be seen in context: the Chinese belief that any stroke (like any character) was a unit of meaning, virtually a work of art; and that the picture could be as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Colors of Ink | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...story outline I wo English Girls is an almost precise parallel of the earlier film. This time it is two women sisters in love with the same man not two men with one woman, and here the nationalities are French and English and not French and German. But there is the same prewar period and the same complicated triangle of inter-relationships Claude Roc (Jean-Pierre Leaud), a timorous young Frenchman of a slowly eroding fortune and an over-fond mother meets a young English girl. Anne Brown, visiting Paris. The two become friends, and in time Claude makes...

Author: By Michael Levenson, | Title: Bad and Bored | 11/15/1972 | See Source »

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