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Caesar had Cleopatra. Tristan loved Isolde. Romeo died for Juliet. Arthur Fonzarelli (a.k.a. "the Fonz") went ape over Pinky Tuscadero. Flame-haired Pinky (played by Roz Kelly, thirtyish), came roaring into Fonzie's life on her guess-what-color motorcycle for the new season's first two shows of ABC'S hit series Happy Days. Instantly smitten by the shapely Pinky, the self-proclaimed "world's greatest female biker," the Fonz actually bussed her in the bike shop and carried her pink scarf close to his leather-jacketed heart. For a few tense moments marriage loomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Pink Passion | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

Thus, older jazz musicians today no longer hesitate to participate in the evolutionary process. Zoot Sims, 50, the veteran tenor saxophonist, now straddles all styles. Benny Carter, 68, has lent the silken sounds of his alto sax to the torchy voice of thirtyish pop singer Maria Muldaur. Drummer Grady Tate, 44, pounds out extraordinary admixtures of jazz beats and shifting, rocky rhythms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Flourish of Jazzz | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

Married. Wayne L. Hays, 64, terrible-tempered 14-term Congressman from Ohio and chairman of the House Administration Committee; and Patricia Peak, thirtyish, Hays' longtime personal secretary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Arlington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 26, 1976 | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...minutes into his arguments for the need of stricter traffic regulations, Ahmed Aly Moursy pauses, groping for the English word describing a person travelling on foot. "Pedestrian," ventures a thirtyish-looking woman on his right, and Moursy resumes his talk...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras, | Title: The Pedestrian and the Camel | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

Married. Samora Moises Machel, 41, bearded Maoist guerrilla fighter who became President of Mozambique when the East African nation gained its independence from Portugal last June; and Graca Simbine, thirtyish, Mozambique Minister for Education and Culture; he for the second time, she for the first; in Lourenço Marques, the country's capital. As head of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo), Machel, a onetime hospital orderly, helped lead the bloody ten-year struggle that brought over 400 years of Portuguese domination to an end. Simbine formerly worked as an underground Frelimo agent, spying on Portuguese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 22, 1975 | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

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