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...still able, he walked with a pronounced stoop. Often he went naked. Sometimes he wore a pair of drawstring white underpants (he had an aversion to buttons, metal snaps and zippers). On the three occasions during the hidden years when he met outsiders, he underwent an elaborate barbering, cleanup and clipping of his finger-and toenails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...Oregon officials insist that the state's three-year-old ban on no deposit-no return containers has significantly thwarted litter bugs, and a similar law in Vermont reduced can and bottle litter on the highways by 76% during the first year it was in effect, cutting cleanup costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Beer Can Ballots | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...result is much more like a whirl pool. Events, characters and dialogue are all sucked down into a powerful nar rative vortex only to resurface later. In The Autumn of the Patriarch, the debris of despotism phosphoresces with decay, and the vultures in charge of that final palace cleanup are history's ageless witnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Numero Uno | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

Figueroa hummed a third strike past Tom Poquette for the game's second out, but George Brett followed by rapping a two-bagger. Cleanup hitter John Mayberry then stepped to the plate and gave the Royals a brief 2-0 cushion by yanking Figueroa's hanging curve over the auxiliary scoreboard in right field...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Chambliss Socks Game-breaker As Yankees Take Pennant, 7-6 | 10/15/1976 | See Source »

...missionaries used ploys similar to highschool bake sales to attract audiences. Petersen -- whose mission took him to Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and the Honduras--organized Bible study groups, cleanup campaigns, and bike-fixing clinics...

Author: By Dennis B. Fitzgibbons, | Title: They Took Two Years to Proselytize, But Now They're at Harvard Again | 10/7/1976 | See Source »

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