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Gutman - Much too official in regard to security matters. Whereas you can convince the checker at Lamont of your Harvard affiliation by flashing a bubble-gum wrapper, at Gutman they require not only identification but your Harvard admissions letter as well...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: The Good, The Bad and the Pusey | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...working on the Alaska pipeline as craftsmen, clerks, cooks. Adele Bacon, 22, for a time was an apprentice pipefitter on the line. "The men watched their language when I was around," she admitted, "so I had to watch mine." At Prudhoe Bay, petite Kathleen Gotten, 26, was a warehouse checker. Among her duties: helping to get 17,000-lb. sections of pipe moving on rollers as they were being cleaned. The women on the pipeline, although their bedrooms are sometimes side by side with the men's, encountered few problems in coed living. "They're treated just like everyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN OF THE YEAR: Great Changes, New Chances, Tough Choices | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

...movie? Though it looks a bit like both, the step that has restored body contact to dancing is called the Hustle, and at big-city discotheques, from Manhattan's Leviticus to San Francisco's Penthouse, it is causing the biggest swivet on the dance floor since Chubby Checker roared in with the twist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Together Again | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

...Edna Rae as a fashion illustrator's model in Texas; Keri Flynn as a dancer in a Montreal night club; Erica Dean as a model for paperback book covers in New York; and Ellen McRae in Broadway's Fair Game in 1957. Comments Burstyn: "I was a checker player, not chess. I could only see one move ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Gillooly Doesn't Live Here Anymore | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

Instead there appeared to be consensus on improving the lighting both inside and outside House entires and on installing a student checker at the Kirkland gate who could admit people into the House with a buzzer similar to the system at Currier House...

Author: By Emily Wheeler, | Title: At Kirkland, Taking It Slow | 10/19/1974 | See Source »

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