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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unsurprisingly, Joe had become something of a living legend by the time he was 25. When sportswriters got tired of extolling his exploits on the field, they zeroed in on his between-games lifestyle. There were photos and stories about his bachelor pad on Manhattan's East Side, which featured a white llama rug-and, purportedly, some of the unholiest debaucheries since Petronius' last house party. No American beauty could regard her career as complete without a date with "Broadway Joe" (a bad geographical misnomer, because Namath's favorite haunts-Dudes 'n' Dolls, Mister Laffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Namath and the Jet-Propelled Offense | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

ELIEZER HALFIN, 24, was a wrestler who emigrated from Russia four years ago. A Tel Aviv garage mechanic when he was not practicing wrestling, Halfin, a bachelor, was the only son of a Latvian father who had lost his first wife and children in a Riga ghetto during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Israel's Dead Were the Country's Hope | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...FRIEDMAN, 28, a bantam weight lifter, was Israel's best hope for a medal. A physical education teacher in a Haifa suburb and a bachelor, Friedman came to Israel in 1960 from Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Israel's Dead Were the Country's Hope | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

Died. Prince William of Gloucester, 30, bachelor first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, former Foreign Office commercial attache and ninth in line of succession to the British throne; of injuries suffered when the light plane he was piloting crashed during an air race; in Wolverhampton, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 11, 1972 | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

...pioneer in these experiments is Britain's Open University. Launched by the Labor government in 1969, Open University now has 35,000 housewives, truck drivers and even soldiers studying toward bachelor's degrees in various fields of science and the arts. It has no formal entrance requirements ("All we ask," says Dean Geoffrey Holister, "is that a student can read and write"), but teaching is rigorous. At a cost of about $200 per student, each course involves one week of summer school, 34 weeks of television and radio lectures, and large amounts of required reading and writing assignments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Colleges Without Walls | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

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