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Promises, Promises involves a struggling insurance company clerk, C.C. "Chuck" Baxter. Baxter wins his way to happiness and a key to the executive washroom by loaning out his $86.50 a month apartment to libidinous vice presidents and their ambitious secretaries. In the process, Baxter manages to fall in love with the very cafeteria waitress who is involved with the almighty Director of Personnel. Aha! Complication! Misunderstanding! Humor! Agony! Unfortunately, we don't get all that...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: Promising Promises Unfulfilled | 11/3/1973 | See Source »

Richard R. Baxter, professor of Law, told the forum that the war was operating in a legal vacuum due mostly to the Arab failure to recognize the Israeli state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fisher Says U.N. Crucial in Mideast | 10/12/1973 | See Source »

Elsewhere in the country, resistance to softer pot laws continues. Though possession of marijuana in small quantities is now just a misdemeanor in Maine, police around Baxter State Park this summer are conducting a campaign to arrest campers who light more than camp fires. So far, raiders have busted more than 150 vacationers and slapped them with a total of $40,000 in fines. In Massachusetts, despite reduced penalties for marijuana use, 47% of all drug arrests in the state are still for pot. Florida Circuit Court Judge Edward Cowart declares: "The thing that bothers me most is that authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Grass Grows More Acceptable | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

During the past 30 years, 20 of them spent working for the CIA, Hunt has managed to write no fewer than 47 novels under a string of pen names: John Baxter, Gordon Davis and Robert Dietrich, as well as David St. John. His chief characters are Agent Ward, a younger version of Hunt himself (they both went to Brown University), and a casual, thrill-hunting Washington C.P.A., Steve Bentley, who describes the nation's capital as "a great town if you've got the stamina of a Cape buffalo and the wealth of a Punjab prince." Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: E. Howard Hunt, Master Storyteller | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...will duel Harvard's Bill Haley and Carl Biello. "That Nisivochia is damn tough." Lee said. "He's going to give Haley a good match, believe me." Lee described Ciarocki as "scappy" and said Biello might have the edge in the 134 meeting. F&M's best grappler, Ed, Baxter, battles Harvard's Dan Blakinger...

Author: By Richard H.P. Sia, | Title: Matmen Hope to Beat 3 Teams Today | 2/10/1973 | See Source »

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