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...Green Meanies crossed most of the way over Sir Anderson when they met the keeper of the bridge. He was gnarled and hunchbacked, with a great beard that dragged along the ground. He had but one eye, and a hook where his right hand should have been. He carried a mammoth spiked club and wore the skins of diverse and many beasts that he had ripped from their backs with his bare hands. He was known only as Kob, and was the great mystery of the kingdom...

Author: By Faithful Scribe, | Title: Green Meanies | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...thing to remember about State Rep. Melvin H. King, who is running third in the polls, is that he is black. He is also bald, has a beard and answers the phones in his campaign headquarters. He will also never be mayor of Boston. Sad to say, of course, because King's politics are refreshingly progressive. If elected, he says he would turn public housing projects into tenant cooperatives, attract more federal funds to the city and fire the guys who run what he labels the implicitly racist Police Department. As one might assume, King is expected to cut fairly...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Everybody Wants to Be Mayor | 9/13/1979 | See Source »

...baseball game at the New England Clown Convention in Salem, Mass., where no one knows who won because the bases kept moving and the umpire used a fire extinguisher to settle disputes. It is Cincinnati's Don Cook, who takes pride in being able to grow an instant beard by letting bees swarm to his chin. It is 102 vintage ships (minimum age: 25 years) sailing in the shadow of the Queen Mary during the Long Beach, Calif., Ancient Mariner's Regatta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Summer, U.S.A. | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...marriage." Caddell's few relaxations include voracious reading, from bestselling novels to heavy political treatises, whipping around town in his gold-colored Mercedes and partying with Jordan. Says he: "I work hard and I play hard." Unmarried, Caddell has recently shed 60 lbs. and grown a gray-flecked beard. He has not, however, lost his sense of where he fits into the Administration's power structure. Says he: "I'm less influential than I'd like to think I am, and a lot more than I deserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter's Pollster | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...Hugh J. Beard Jr., the chief counsel for the plaintiffs, a group of former UNC law students suing UNC for reverse discrimination, said yesterday no one knows how the court will resolve the dispute...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Judicial Decision May Affect Assembly | 7/13/1979 | See Source »

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