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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year span. Since homosexual couples cannot comfortably meet in mixed company, the gay bars become impersonal "meat racks"?not unlike "swinger" bars for heterosexual singles?whose common denominator is little more than sex. Keeping a gay marriage together requires unusual determination, since the partners have no legal contract to stay together for worse or better; there are no children to focus the couple's concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Homosexual: Newly Visible, Newly Understood | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...that was tough," he roars). Snarr got into billboards because his father, a potato farmer, was too poor to send him to college. By designing weirdly shaped signs that visually jolted motorists, he earned his way through two years of Brigham Young University, then snagged a $400,000 sign contract from Harrah's casinos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highway: How to Remove Billboards | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...states planned their beautification programs on a far too complex basis. Committees would choose the stretches of road to be cleaned up first. Then teams of engineers would draw survey maps, appraisers would evaluate every sign, Government would review the appraisals, and finally the billboard company would get a contract to remove a sign. The whole process, Snarr saw, could last decades and cost $2 billion or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highway: How to Remove Billboards | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

According to Bautzer, Aubrey told Kerkorian: "I don't want a contract. If I do a job on this, the contract will take care of itself. If you don't like the way I'm doing it, you can say 'Get lost, Jim' without any obligations." Aubrey will get $208,000 yearly, plus an option to buy 17,500 shares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Return of Smiling Jim | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...dealers at home, and likely gain much-needed recruits among Jeep's 1,600 dealers, some of whom will switch to AMC. American also inherits Jeep's substantial Government business, which amounted to 62% of its sales of $477 million last year, and a $190 million Jeep contract to build Army trucks, which was announced by the Pentagon on the same day as the sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Over the Top in a Jeep | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

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