December 05, 1977

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Radner's Ready

Gilda Radner Dieted Off 45, but She's Getting Her Pound of Flesh from Baba Wawa Et Al

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A Shadowy Child Killer Claims Four Victims and Holds Detroit's Suburbs in a Grip of Fear

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The New U.S. Envoy to Israel Gets a Historic Phone Call—and Finds Himself Aging Fast

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Across the Canal, Another American Acts as 'Postman' to Bring Old Enemies Together

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Loser and Still Champion, Atlanta Mayor Jackson Is a Sliver of His Former Self

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Dorothy Loudon Is One for the Seesaw: Career Up, Life Down

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95 Harvard Men: a Psychiatrist Examines Who Among Them Prosper in Life, and Why

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The Mercury That's Rising in Rock Is Freddie, the Satiny Seductor of Queen

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There's No Last Picture Show in the Granbury, Texas Opera House

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Dr. Henry Lynch Hits the Road to Track Down—and Help Prevent—Cancer That Runs in Families

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Jock and Betty Don't Need a Unicorn in the Garden When They Have a Giraffe in the Breakfast Room

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For Helen Van Slyke, Romance Once Came Out of a Lipstick Tube; Now It's Her Glossy Novels

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A Broker Who Likes the Little Guy Takes Over the Country's Second Biggest Stock Exchange

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Melina Mercouri, the Face That Launched a Thousand Ouzos, Wins An Election in Greece

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If Earl Campbell Does Win the Heisman, It Won't Be for the Gipper, but for Mom

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Charlotte Rampling Makes Strange Music with Electronic Composer Jean-Michel Jarre

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Amid the Tumult of Houston, 2,000 Delegates Vote: Yes, We Are Our Sisters' Keepers

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The Last Time NBC Had So Many Twins on Camera, Minnesota Was in the World Series

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Remember That Happy Hippie? At 30, Arlo Guthrie Has Done His Own Hard Travelin'

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Will Cary Guffey Survive His Close Encounter of the Fourth Kind—Stardom at Age 5?

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Celebrate LIFE's 73rd Birthday

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Radner's Ready

Gilda Radner Dieted Off 45, but She's Getting Her Pound of Flesh from Baba Wawa Et Al

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