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Insanity continued to be the rule in Ivy League football Saturday as Yale and Dartmouth lost breathtakers in the closing seconds, and Brown emerged from its early-season siesta to churn through Princeton like an Evinrude in a bathtub...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Ivy Roundup: Elis Lose First | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

...also willing to allow some modern conveniences into his Eden. When his wife makes butter, she uses a blender in stead of a churn. "If I were to move to an old-fashioned farm," Perrin writes, "and could bring just one piece of modern machinery with me, I wouldn't hesitate a second. I'd bring my chainsaw. It's noisy, it's dangerous, it pollutes the air-and I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cold Pastoral | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...hostility with its neighbors. Annexing the West Bank and Gaza, with their 1.1 million Arabs, would turn the Jewish state that Israelis want into the first stage of the binational country that P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat seeks. Keeping the Palestinians under occupation, no matter how benign, will only churn up the will to struggle that is expressed in this popular West Bank ballad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: West Bank: The Cruelest Conflict | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...growing pseudoscience that is more fun than astrology and not as messy as reading chicken entrails. Biorhythm is now a multimillion-dollar-a-year business, serving more than a million believers in the U.S. The word is spread in books, newsletters, a syndicated column and shopping-mall computers that churn out daily charts for 50?. There is a biorhythm service predicting the results of professional football games ($99 a season), and several dozen companies supply computerized charts and such biorhythm hardware as calculator watches ($169) and a Biocom desk computer ($3,000). One company, Kosmos International of Atlanta, supplies charts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Those Biorythms and Blues | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...those days a cult arose among the most disaffected Santalanders--a cult centered around the now-mythic figure of the original Santa Claus. And as The Santa Corporation's plants continued to churn out gifts that would probably never be unwrapped, the Clausists' following grew...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Christmas Fable | 12/9/1977 | See Source »

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