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...around his genitalia. It is electronically attuned to his body smell. When he begins to lose, and starts secreting the smell of fear, the electronic "pod," situated in his testicles, is activated. The shock drives him into a state of mindless frenzy in which he has been known to bite off his opponents entire cheeks. Von Erich has lost very, very few matches...

Author: By Nick Eberstadt, | Title: Some Notes on Big-Time Wrestling | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

...white-collar wage earners Palme decided to make companies and self-employed citizens shoulder the soaring cost of Sweden's cradle-to-grave social programs. At the same time, wage earners were allowed to stop contributing to health insurance and pension plans. As a result, their average tax bite has been reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: The 101.2% Solution | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

Right there on that last line we decided what the story line was going to be--love at first sight. And it was time for the Bite...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: "I Got Bit by a Seeing-eye Dog" | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

Laws leaves few of the Law School's more tender points untouched, including the wildly approbistic response of a chorus of Supreme Court judges to a whisper of Alan Dershowitz's name. The New Yorker said of Laws namesake, don't bite. If you're unsure of the ground north of the Science Center, don't litigate...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: On the Case | 3/16/1976 | See Source »

...national product will not find them in The People's Almanac. But the book is a trove for trivia freaks who wake in the middle of the night with a craving to list "15 renowned redheads" (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, Lucille Ball) or the "nine breeds of dog that bite the most" (among them: German shepherd, chowchow, poodle) or the site of the annual watermelon seed-spitting contest (Paul's Valley, Okla.). Those addicted to the filler material at the bottom of newspaper columns will find an attic's worth of yellowing snippets ("If you had spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Towering Trivia | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

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