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While some freshmen were banging on mail boxes and tin cans, others complained, tongue-in cheek, about their unruly contemporaries: "I can't get any work done," one shouted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Erupt In Harvard Yard | 11/5/1970 | See Source »

...paid to the fine points of enjoying America's own proud indigenous beverage-ubiquitous, multi-flavored, effervescent soda pop. To remedy that omission, California Novelist Earl Shorris (Boots of the Virgin) has set down some obiter dicta in San Francisco's Sunday Examiner & Chronicle. Tongue firmly in cheek, he sounds a clarion call to those who prefer pop to other drinks but feel that it is socially unacceptable. "Drink what you like," he advises. "Don't be discouraged from indulging your personal preferences by snobbish glances or sly asides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Elevation of Soda Pop | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

...report of the commission is the third major report to the President oncampus unrest since the invasion of Cambodia. The other two-one by Chancellor Alexander Heard of Vanderbilt University and the other by President James Cheek of Howard University-met with chilly receptions at the White House...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Presidential Commission Gives Report on Campuses | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

...results are being obtained by muscle transposition. In an operation developed by Dr. Leonard Ru bin of Hempstead, N.Y., the temporalis muscle, which runs from the temple to the jawbone, is split into three sections. These are then separated and connected to the patient's eye, mouth and cheek. After considerable practice before a mirror, a patient can learn to use the transposed muscle to control winking or smiling. The operation returns a near-normal appearance to the face at rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Correcting Facial Paralysis | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

Besides a sense of fairness, TUM has a sense of humor. Its first issue's 16 pages include a tongue-in-cheek quiz on the Denver Post's handling of two debutante balls-one white, one black. It offers excerpts from the two stories and asks readers to match them with the right ball. Sample 1): "From the moment it started until the last waltz, the rooms were wall-to-wall with vintage bloodlines. There was old money, new money and talented young moneymakers, and everyone shone and everything moved." Sample 2): "About 400 persons attended ..." Answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Unsatisfied Newsmen | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

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