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...plan fails, the opposition Labor Party will doubtless reap the benefits at the polls-but not until the 1981 elections. Ironically, one provision of the Likud economic plan might have changed the results of the election that brought Begin to power: the legalization of foreign bank accounts for Israeli citizens. The most prominent violators of the old law banning such accounts were former Labor Premier Yitzhak Rabin and his wife Leah. They admitted keeping $20,000 in Washington, D.C., banks, thus causing Rabin's resignation and contributing to the Likud victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: A Push Toward Capitalism | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

Businessmen strongly oppose Nelson's scheme. But having them pay the lion's share of the increased taxes until the 21st century meets with the approval of Jimmy Carter?even though the extra costs would doubtless be passed along to consumers in the form of higher prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Social Security: Up, Up and Away! | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...have to be with children, and men, and go to lunches, receptions, bistros, dinners at Maxim's and business meetings and are always ready to travel." She does not, obviously, intend to dine at Maxim's or board the Concorde bare-bosomed, but those far-out styles are doubtless intended to emphasize her view that clothes should on occasion be "laconic, humorous and seductive." They are also elegantly trimmed and fringed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Put-Ons, Take-Offs and Dress-Ups | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...York." One YSL eyecatcher: a tricolored cotton shirt worn with sailcloth pants. His ready-to-wear clothes were modern, young and?with one or two see-through and derriere-baring exceptions?eminently wearable on Manhattan's avenues. That?if not his prices ($500 or more) ?will doubtless bring Yves new acceptance as a guru turned pragmatist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Put-Ons, Take-Offs and Dress-Ups | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...when Hef was six years old.) The English, among the world's most passionate pin pushers, trace pinball's origins to the bagatelle board mentioned in Dickens' Pickwick Papers. Abe Lincoln was big on bagatelle. The sheiks of Araby are clamoring for the new machines, doubtless to keep their kids out of the casinos; King Hussein of Jordan ordered three Ballys: Wizard, Bow and Arrow, and Ro Go. Pinmania has been exploding throughout Europe, notably in France, Italy and Germany, where the game is ecumenically called Flipper. The passion has even pushed through the jungles of Malaysia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Pinball Redux: The Hottest Games | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

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