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...only took six strokes for Harvard to brush aside any wild ideas that Princeton really was going to make a serious challenge for the Goldthwait...
...They found that the children caught on quickly. Now Lincoln has a newspaper called the Nader News, which features sulfurous exposés like the tale about the school store, where Mrs. Betty Davis tried to beat Susan Davidson out of a penny on her purchase of a paste brush. (Susan...
Correspondents James Willwerth and Sandy Smith reported from the New York firing line, and from their own experience as thug watchers. Willwerth's first brush with the Mob dates back to 1969, when an anonymous phone call took him from Manhattan to Tucson, Ariz., and a three-hour interview with a confidant of Family Man, Joe Bonanno. His article appeared with our cover story on the Mafia (TIME, Aug. 22, 1969). Last summer Willwerth reported on the shooting of Joe Colombo...
...loyalty to traditional Jewish law. "Without law the Covenant is empty and even meaningless," says Seymour Siegel. "There can be no Covenant without observance." That, of course, is an old question in Judaism, and it divides even those devoutly observant Jews whom the outside world paints with the broad brush of "Orthodoxy...
...gilded-age industries such as banking, finance, steel, mining and railroads. On the other hand, women have found fairly wide opportunities in advertising and high-fashion retailing. Countless companies require female-but not male-college graduates to take typing tests, then assign the women to clerical jobs. Says Barbara Brush, an equal-employment specialist in San Francisco: "Once a woman sets herself up that way, even though she moves on to more interesting work, her salary will be $100 a week below a man's." Reason: if she starts low. she stays low. The dead-end clerical route...