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Bluegrass music, cotton candy and flying frisbees highlighted the first Spring Live Folk Orgy sponsored by the student radio station WHRB at the Radcliffe Quad yesterday...

Author: By Cynthia A. Torres, | Title: WHRB Live Folk Orgy Sets Quad to Footstompin' | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...company also violates the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Its plants have been found to contain cotton dust, a cause of lung disease, at levels three to 20 times higher than those permissible by law--and many argue the legal limit itself is too high. The health and noise standards in the plants are much worse than the national norm. The company pension plan paid on average less than $10 a month to each worker in 1975. It paid nothing in 1970, 1971, and 1972. The company said there was no profit to share...

Author: By Timothy G. Massad, | Title: Battling the Modern Sweatshops | 5/3/1977 | See Source »

...another painted doll, until the repetition becomes a marvel, the rooms of the exhibit each open to show another artistic entity, another group of--yes, again--masterpieces. Unlike Russian dolls, however, these paintings demand individual recognition. Old favorites compete for attention: Ingres's Odalisque a l'Esclave, Degas's Cotton Merchants, David's Portrait of Sieyes, Rembrandt's Head of Christ, Rubens's Quo Ego, Poussins's Holy Family...these call insistently for the observers to immerse themselves in the world set up by the painting, to enter, look, note and depart. No one observant could refuse them. But there...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Old Friends, Well Met | 5/3/1977 | See Source »

Smuggling has long been a basic industry in Starr County-cotton during the Civil War, liquor during Prohibition, and in the last few years, Mexican narcotics. Ten to 20 tons of marijuana flow into the county each week, along with unknown amounts of heroin and cocaine. Almost daily, Mexican grass is trucked to the Rio Grande, loaded into sacks and placed on rafts or carried across the shallow river to Texas, only 40 yards away. Estimated value of the drug traffic: up to $5 million a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Taming a Tough County | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...professional of Sotogrande is Henry Cotton, the former British Open winner who was previously the pro at the Penina golf course in Portugal. Vik finished 35th in the World Amateur Championship played at Penina in October. Cotton fled to Sotogrande after the recent leftwing takeover in Portugal when his books were audited and the Penina caddies siezed the clubhouse after forming a revolutionary brigade...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Ole, Captain Ajax | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

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