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...They are based on negativity. I am positivity. When they hate, I love. I send out waves of love to them. I pray for them. They hate me so much they can't eat and they can't sleep. But I laugh, I play tennis, I play cricket, I do yoga exercises, I dance, and I am happy inside. Very happy." Patting his flat stomach and flexing his muscles, he added: "And I am strong inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRENADA: Let Them Eat Bananas | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

Each of the 30 pits around Nottingham has its own club, cricket fields and schools. After they finish for the day, the miners usually stand around the bar at their own pubs. Though the refusal to work overtime has cost the miners $25 to $37.50 a week, they seem ready to stick it out. "We're a close-knit community," says Terry McGuire, a huge Scot who has been in the mines since World War II. "If somebody did need some assistance, he wouldn't ask the government. We'll take care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Angry Nottingham Miners | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

...After a few more years of activity, the Warner Bros, animation unit was closed for good in 1962. Since then Jones has worked mostly on TV, producing a syndicated series called The Curiosity Shop and directing an occasional half-hour animated special, like the sweetly eccentric A Very Merry Cricket, to be shown on ABC this Friday (8 to 8:30 p.m., E.S.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The World Jones Made | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...Wells from a boy in extreme poverty to a man of influence in the early twentieth century is infinitely more intriguing than analogous stories on this side of the Atlantic about Carnegie or Rockefeller. Wells was born in 1866 to a fanatically fundamentalist mother and a relatively impotent cricket-playing father perched ominously close to the bottom rung of a socially immobile ladder of Victorian society. Relying mostly on his raw intelligence, voracious reading habits, and an outstanding ability to cram, Wells was able to avoid the draper's life his mother had so carefully planned for him. 'Bertie...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: The Evolution of H.G. Wells | 12/14/1973 | See Source »

...original contributions. But new material dominates the two most recent issues (November and December), in which the contributors include Novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer and the prolific children's writer Elizabeth Coatsworth. Assisted by such diverse characters as the Unhappy King of Gargantak and the Two-Toed Tree Toad, Cricket has already attracted more than 100,000 subscribers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Critic's Cricket | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

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