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Then too there was kinship with the suffering, with Jim Bra dy, especially; old Brady "the Bear," Brady the joker, the poker-faced inventor of Goat Gap Texas Chili and Captain Brady's Nightie Night, who wasn't kidding when he described his new position as "the toughest p.r. job in the world." And kinship with life, with Sarah Brady holding her husband's hand, waiting for the squeeze to be returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sense of Where We Are | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

From Manhattan came Detective Charles Nanton; from Oakland, Calif., Sergeant Alexander Smith. The detective credited with solving the seven "Merritt Parkway Bra" murders in Stamford, Conn., Lieutenant George Mayer, arrived. Detroit police lent the services of Lieutenant Gilbert Hill, who cleared up the "Browning Gang" case that had claimed 15 victims. And out of retirement came Captain Pierce Brooks, who caught the killers of a Los Angeles policeman in the celebrated "Onion Field" case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Atlanta Murders | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...impact of later changes on earlier decisions: the consequences of the narrowing process itself must be a matter of concern in the system of formal review. To put it more colloquially, if Harvard is down to just hot-spots at this point, we should be back to the BRA...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Fix on MATEP | 10/29/1980 | See Source »

...nicotine cigarettes are "luring" young women into the smoking habit, according to a Harvard University researcher who calls the tobacco products the "pharmacologic equivalent of a training bra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Doctor Says Low-Tar Brands Lure Young Women to Smoke | 10/15/1980 | See Source »

...MORE THAN JUST MONEY may stall the Logue plan. In New York today, Ed Logue lacks the clout he had at the BRA 15 years ago. The governments of New York City and State are so vast, and sources of funding for South Bronx projects so diffuse, that Logue simply does not have the authority to make deals with the private sector. Bureaucrats at the city, state, and federal levels repeatedly throw wrenches into plans by undermining what little authority he does have, or by sealing up needed funds...

Author: By David H. Feinberg, | Title: From Beantown to the South Bronx | 10/2/1980 | See Source »

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