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Durgerian, who had stunned the court offensively with his backward over-the-head shots was modest. "My hair looked good," he said, "but I should have worn red socks. They would have matched my sneakers better...

Author: By Richard T. Broida, | Title: Classics Frustrate Deer Island, 74-73 | 1/16/1976 | See Source »

...zoologist even suggested the "head" was that of a Highland steer that had drowned in the lake. One skeptic, interviewed on British television, speculated that the head was a shot of a scuba diver wearing his breathing apparatus backward. A London paper noted that Nessie's proposed scientific name, Nessiteras rhombopteryx, is an anagram for "monster hoax by Sir Peter S."-a possible reference to Nessie Supporter Sir Peter Scott, who co-authored the Nature article with Rines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nessie's Return | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

That contented-looking fellow is Actor Burt Reynolds, starring as a backwoods Southern moonshiner in a new film titled Gator. The half-clad lady bending backward to please him is Actress-Model Lauren Hutton, playing an investigative reporter who falls into Burt's clutches. The movie, which is due for release next year, gives Reynolds his first chance to direct, and Co-Star Hutton, at least, says he did all right. "He was able to accept ideas from the actors; he even accepted some of mine," she reports. And what about that love scene, Lauren? "I kept asking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 29, 1975 | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...only have we not progressed a great deal since October 1971--both statistically and attitudinally--but I fear we have moved backward from that date in a number of areas," Leonard, who is Harvard's coordinator for affirmative action, said in his report...

Author: By Robert Ullmann, | Title: Twelve Student Groups Form Affirmative Action Coalition | 12/9/1975 | See Source »

...solve this problem, the last three years have brought us the "fish scale" bottom which, as its name implies, is a large tractive area (usually the entire ski bottom) resembling fish scales that allow the ski to slide forward but not backward...

Author: By Grover G. Norquist, | Title: Switch to Cross-Country | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

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