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...mouth would feel like cotton and my stomach like it was in a huge knot. Luckily the symptoms usually went away by dinnertime, only to come back right on schedule in a week's time." Bannish is currently being observed on an out-patient basis at Brigham...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: So You Wanted Controversy? | 2/23/1977 | See Source »

...would think after reading them that the Africans willingly jumped on those boats to come over and help the white man pick cotton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 21, 1977 | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...ancient mariners, polar residents and all other serious outdoorsmen know well, simply heaping on clothes brings on the sweats-and the sweat can swiftly freeze. The best bottom-line investment (for about $18) is a thermal -meaning it traps the air-underwear with an inner lining of moisture-absorbent cotton topped with wool, cotton and nylon. On top the urban survivor wears a flannel shirt, a cashmere sweater or a goose-down vest, a tweed jacket, a muffler, mittens (which allow fingers to warm each other) and a heavy overcoat. On the assumption that the 8:30 a.m. train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Warm and Chic | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...comes first. Watching Canadiens named Guy Lafleur and Jacques Lemaire outskate visiting players named Cameron and Maloney, bringing a certain sense of history to the place, one can confuse a hockey team with a political movement. That makes as much sense as confusing war in Viet Nam with the Cotton Bowl, which may be what Lyndon Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Les Canadiens: The Politics of Pucks | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

Alex Haley and the TV producers had the Lome Greene character farming cotton in Spotsylvania County, Va.; it should have been tobacco. Harold Cruse, author of The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, observes: "When you see Leslie Uggams and her long polished nails, you just have to laugh." Although Cruse liked Roots, he thought "the ending was contrived, commercialized and romanticized. For one thing, under those conditions, you don't just tie up a plantation owner to a tree and then get into a wagon and casually drive away as if there weren't bloodhounds and night riders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Living with the 'Peculiar Institution' | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

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