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...Well," Jordan says as he excuses himself from the office, "I'm glad my name ain't on that memo." · It is a short time later. The President is alone in the Cabinet Room with three Senators, Democrats John Glenn and Abraham Ribicoff and Republican Charles Percy. They have presented him a report by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment on the problem of nuclear proliferation. "I know you're working right in the middle of this now," Glenn tells the President, "and I think it's very important." Carter notes that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: With Jimmy from Dawn to Midnight | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...room house. Dolly does not spend much time there, but when she does she just likes to walk around and play a little tennis. She does not hang out with other country-music folks. When at home, she invites her family and close friends over. Says she: "I ain't no housewife, but I cook real good country food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: On the Rock Road with Dolly Parton | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

Maybe Bobby Orr can understand what it is like to prematurely give up something you've been doing well most of your life, or at least he should be thinking about it. Well it ain't easy...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Chemical Benzene Rings Replace Basketball Rims | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

Fear of Flying possessed a bawdy exuberance. John Updike even found it Chaucerian. But How to Save Your Own Life is marinated in sour juices: dissolving marriage, curdled fame, Hollywood's treachery. "Ain't it awful?" the reader mutters. Erica/Isadora uses the book to settle old scores against her husband ("I married a monster, I think") and a hustling Hollywood producer who, she says, flimflammed her on the film rights to the bestselling first novel. Before she gets around to making the final break with Dr. Wing, Isadora has a lesbian affair, checks in with a brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oral History | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

...Great band, laid-back but they ain't laying idle back there, have you heard their latest album...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Loud, Hot 'Lanta Honky-Tonk | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

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