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...when she passed, and the empty social calendar was soon crammed. There was still no money: during her freshman summer Ali waited on tables at the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall hotel in Atlantic City. Brother Dick remembers the pretty 18-year-old with the Irish temper simmering on the back burner. "To me, she really became a human being the time she was waiting on a table with a great bunch of waitress-kidders. They began riding her, and suddenly a whole tray of food landed on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Ali MacGraw: A Return to Basics | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...optimistic about the law's adoption in the near future, Sutherland feels that any gun legislation would be "simmering on the back burner" for quite a while to come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sutherland Urges Firearms Ban, Doubts Chance for Law's Passage | 10/15/1970 | See Source »

...Miss Glendening said that she expected to contact more Currier residents for signatures and that the petition would be presented to Burner the beginning of next week...

Author: By Joyce Heard, | Title: Radcliffe Forces Fancy Phones On Unwilling Currier Students | 10/3/1970 | See Source »

...Skidoo. Otto Preminger's idiosyncratic (naive, if you like) comedy about American youth. A mammoth ugly crime syndicate is used to symbolize the establishment; LSD and a draft-card burner save the day. All Preminger and all crazy...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Moviegoer Ten Best Films of 1969 | 1/9/1970 | See Source »

...come downtown after dark and neither will my friends. The city is deserted after dark. Everybody is afraid to walk on the streets. I think the Supreme Court is ruining the country with its decisions. Criminals are being released on technicalities. My husband is an oil-burner mechanic, and he used to be on call 24 hours a day. No more. He doesn't work after dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man And Woman Of The Year: Hitting Close to Home | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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