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Finally we were at Winterland. Jagger appeared and it was a shock; he looked frail and innocent for a man of 28 trailing a history of fights, drug busts and death. Pouty child in glittery eye makeup, strutting and singing, posturing like a crane with his skeletal legs draped in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Day in the Life | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

As the songs roll on, Jagger wiggles his flanks in Guitarist Keith Richard's face. Singing the frantic Gimmie Shelter, Jagger stands fey in the middle of it, bouncing time with one scarecrow leg, left hand inverted on his hip like an artist balancing before his easel. For Tumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Day in the Life | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

The flight of man's ancestors to the sea became inevitable, Morgan says, when "torrid heat waves began to scorch the African continent," killing off the trees and drying up the food supply. At the time, things were even tougher for the female than for the male: "She had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Wet Scenario | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

Nixon moved through this landscape seemingly a lonely man, clinging to his American habits-dry cereal, cottage cheese, no vodka, only modest sips of champagne-and his singleness of purpose. There was something very admirable about the man in these circumstances, determined to bring something home, to make a supreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Eating Cereal in the House of the Czars | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

The NCAA Swimming and diving Championship got under way yesterday at West Point, N.Y., with defending champion Indiana clinging to a one-point lead over second place Southern Cal. Harvard, setting one new school record, failed to qualify for any final.

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Neville Sets Swim Mark in NCAA | 3/24/1972 | See Source »

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