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...chamber," one boy wrote. Another, Carmine Esposito, described a chilling scene: "The next day I wanted to see and ride in my bulletproof car, which cost $100,000. When I saw the car I fainted. The car was a black funeral hearse. I saw a coffin. It said, 'Reserved for President Esposito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Unimperial Presidency | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...dropped heavy tile roofs on sleeping victims. The highland Indians were stunned at how easily their homes had disintegrated. "We need wood," said one who had saved his family of six but lost his house. "We cannot build of adobe again. It is of earth and it is our coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Death in the Tragic Triangle | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...idol who earned the nickname "The Switchblade Kid" for his stage and cinema characterizations of young toughs on the rocky road to manhood; after being stabbed; in an alleyway outside his West Hollywood apartment, where he died gasping, unable to identify his assailant. The son of a Bronx coffin maker, Mineo started his career on Broadway at age eleven in The Rose Tattoo. In 1956 he won an Oscar nomination for Rebel Without a Cause, and an Emmy nomination for Dino. A second Oscar nomination came for his 1960 performance as the psychotic youth in Exodus. At the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 23, 1976 | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

Mark, like many of Trudeau's regular characters, is a composite of several flesh-and-blood figures, including former Yale Activist Mark Zanger, now a staff writer for Boston's Real Paper. The Reverend Sloan is an amalgam of former Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. and a onetime roommate who became a minister and lawyer. Trudeau created Nichole, his first strong female character, while he was seeing Annie Hurlbut, a Yalie who later moved on to study anthropology at the University of Illinois-but not before turning Trudeau on to feminism. Last summer Garry donated close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOONESBURY: Drawing and Quartering for Fun and Profit | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

Your twelve crowned princesses were just the last nail in the coffin for a year that was not much of anything or anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 26, 1976 | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

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