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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...among poor and working-class voters. Says he: "They need someone to stand up and fight for them." Once he even invited Cleveland's civic leaders to breakfast with him at Tony's Diner, where he has eaten for years. His usual order: two bowls of Special K with bananas and a steak, which the waitress cuts up for him to save him time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Boy Mayor Has Problems | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...conversation. America's last known billionaire, the reclusive Daniel K. Ludwig, 80, who scraped together $25 at the age of nine to buy a sunken boat and now operates one of the world's largest shipping fleets, made a rare public appearance last week in Richmond, Va. The occasion was the transfer to the state of Virginia of Leesylvania, a 485-acre tract once in the hands of the Robert E. Lee family and later purchased by the Ludwig-controlled American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. Said Ludwig at the ceremony: "I think the people of Virginia are entitled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 10, 1978 | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...small appliances. There, after waiting meekly in line for an hour or so, he/she sets Magico on a counter for the disdainful inspection of a stern young man who might be an oral surgeon or IRS agent manqué (22-J). Inspector will variously diagnose the appliance (22-K to 22-Z) as klunky, a lemon, mismanufactured, nonfunctioning, off-brand, plastic, quirky, rachitic, substandard, tinny, unredeemable, valueless, wonky, Xrated, Why-Fix-It? and zapped already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Small Appliances, Big Headache | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...Silber got us on his ground immediately," Brian K. Herschler, one of the students at the protest said yesterday, adding that students at the meeting "swallowed a lot" of what Silber said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Students Protest | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

...this point in life, people either have or haven't developed a sense of ethics," Donald K. Schott, a first-year student, says...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: Pondering the Meaning of It All | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

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