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...Pericles of Putney/ The Voltaire of Vermont/ He'll blush at titles like that/ But aptness they do not want." The man so honored by the maimed meter of Senator Edward Brooke last week was his Senate colleague, George Aiken of Vermont. It was a combination birthday (his 82nd) and farewell party given by former Texas Congressman Frank Ikard for the retiring dean of the U.S. Senate. Aiken admirers donned casual and Western clothes and gathered for an evening of corn on the cob and some country music. Among the guests: Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott (in a patchwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 26, 1974 | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

...think so. I think ... well, the first blush will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: The Most Critical Nixon Conversations | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...dish has an identity of its own, but the diners ignore all subtlety in order to concentrate more conscientiously on their suicidal quest. Marcello Mastroianni stuffs down six clams in one bite. Grubby fingers and grubby mouths attack roasted legs of fowl so greedily they would make Henry VIII blush...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Pumping the Stomach | 11/1/1973 | See Source »

...brothers through adolescence. The flash, the underlying reservoir of violence, the macho-tenderness, the urban toughness--for better or worse, these are part of what we are. The miracle is that Sha Na Na transforms its music into a part of the present; any Sunday school choir would blush to hear the meticulous harmonizing they contribute to classics of the fifties and early sixties. Teen angels and leaders of the pack, Sha Na Na plays the best hardcore rock 'n roll around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rock and Jazz | 11/1/1973 | See Source »

...check earlier findings by Boston Psychiatrist Peter H. Wolff that Orientals blush more easily in response to alcohol than Westerners, the North Carolina team selected 48 test subjects, 24 Americans of European extraction and 24 Orientals, mostly Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese and Koreans. All of them lived in central North Carolina, mostly around the college town of Chapel Hill, and were modest to moderate drinkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Orientals and Alcohol | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

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