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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violent exercise by taking two walks a day. Incidentally, both President Kaunda of Zambia and the Queen of England honored me for my service in Zambia. So I can recommend that the elderly carry on with their work as long as health and a demand for their services will allow them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 6, 1976 | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...offered by James Ritchie, executive director of the Gambling Commission. "There is in the breast of every person," he observes, "a desire to risk. It may be a desire to run for political office, or a desire by a farmer to plant wheat and see if the elements allow him to reap a crop, or a desire to buy stock or commodity futures. Or maybe it comes from a person who decides he has some disposable income and he's going to risk that money because he has a feeling he'll come away with more money, which is called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: GAMBLING GOES LEGIT | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...Allow me to go on record as assuring your readers that contrary to The Crimson's report (30/11/76) I did not use the expression "male chauvinist pigs" at a recent R-H Women's Center discussion. Many years ago I vowed never to fall back on that term in public or private; I have never done so; and while I have been known to employ the shorter form "pigs" with perhaps too great abandon, the aforementioned quote cannot be ascribed accurately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Misquotation | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...compromise may be in the offing which would modify the current requirement and allow advanced language courses to be offered in the non-western and western culture brackets of the proposed new core curriculum plan...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Practicing what you preach | 12/4/1976 | See Source »

...biologists' proposal fills that requirement. Not only would it facilitate cross-registration at the Med School, its proponents say, but it would allow undergraduates to cross-register at the Law School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in courses that they now enter several weeks late...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: This time it may be for real | 12/4/1976 | See Source »

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