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Unfortunately, cliched writing and cluttered bureaucratic lingo mar even the most interesting depictions of Johnson's life. Some passages suffer from a bald style and a lack of editing...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: A Bedtime Story | 6/4/1976 | See Source »

...This bald summary scants Commoner's enviable skill at explaining complicated technical issues in lucid and lively terms. The reader rides as easily on Commoner's prose as on one of his favorite electric trains. Then, suddenly, the author's destination looms up. He blames America's energy, environmental and economic troubles squarely on the baneful evolution of the once effective capitalistic system because it aims to emphasize "private profit rather than social value." The solution, "at least in principle," Commoner insists, is some form of socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Learning the Three Es | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

Bruno "the Italian living legend" Sammartino sprawls against the turnbuckle, the air knocked from his chest, the life gone out of his legs. Ivan "the Russian Bear" Koloff advances menacingly, his bald head and tattooed arms proclaiming unredeemable evil. With the 18-foot chain that binds them together, Koloff begins to strangle the World Champion of the east coast. He twists the Russian chain elaborately around Bruno's powerful throat...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: The Great Russian Chain Match | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

...Camelot. "Come in," Edie purrs soothingly, "we're not ready yet." She is thoroughly disorganized--she wears her dresses upside down, empties loaves of Wonderbread for the raccoons in the attic, dons a different makeshift scarf in each sequence to cover her head (which may or may not be bald...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: An Andy Warhol Camelot | 4/7/1976 | See Source »

...well in Massachusetts, and about as expected in Florida--but will Moynihan's endorsement play in Rochester? More than one liberal Democrat is worried about Jackson's foreign policy--their line is that Scoop's the one to start World War III. Jackson still has some liabilities from his bald-eagle stance of the Vietnam years. And yesterday three labor leaders, including Victor Gottbaum in New York, former Bayh campaigners, came out for Udall...

Author: By Thomas S. Blanton, | Title: Death Valley Went for Reagan | 3/13/1976 | See Source »

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