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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boys from Brazil, Levin (7) 8 -Ragtime, Docforow (6) 9- The R Document, (9) 10-Kinflicks, A/fher

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...time wrestling there are anomalies and curiosities of medicine unknown to the Guinness Book of World Records. Bobo Brazil, for example, the ever-popular champ, has a skull that is reputed to be four inches thick. He inflicts a torture known as the 'Coco-butt' upon his terrorized victims. By smashing his oversized cranium against theirs, he is able to shatter loose bits of bone which drift into their brain over succeeding months. The lucky ones become basket cases. Others bleed from their ears and lose all control over their bowel function...

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

...wrestlers, however, have Brazil's claim to normalcy. Clark Freeman, known as "The Nevada Skuzz-bomb" is a young man breaking into the West Coast conference--if man is the proper word. A victim of the aftereffects of and atomic blast at Nevada, New Mexico, Freeman's metabolism has been radically changed. He appears to the unaided eye to be composed of loose shale and flies, and is surrounded by a constant hissing noise. He is having trouble rising on the list of contenders because many of the contenders who have higher ranking than him are afraid...

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

Robert Gordon would have us believe that a vote for Birch Bayh is a vote for the poor and oppressed of Brazil and America. Such could not be further from the truth. Birch Bayh is just another politician who caters to a special interest group; in Bayh's case the special interest is organized labor. It is stretching incredulity to say that this group has the interests of the poor and oppressed at heart. By exerting their monopoly power, unions have been a major factor in promoting both inflation and unemployment, neither of which are in the interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOTING FOR BAYH | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

Duncan Kennedy, assistant professor of Law who also recently received tenure and who has been an associate of Unger's for several years, said yesterday that Unger came to the Law School as a graduate student after he received an undergraduate degree in law in Brazil, and began teaching at the Law School after he received his masters there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guggenheim Gives Fellowships for '76 | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

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