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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...season-ending match, Fish figured, was cause for a celebration drink. They hadn't beaten powerhouse Princeton, and they hadn't won the league. But they had done pretty well, everyone thought. And, besides, the manager had helped the boys sweep Cornell...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: An Unlikely Hero | 5/15/1979 | See Source »

...case of First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, declared unconstitutional a Massachusetts state law prohibiting corporations from spending money to influence state-wide initiataive campaigns when the issue at stake does not materially affect them. (Note that even this powerful law could not and did not prevent soft drink manufacturers from spending money to defeat the bottle bill initiative.) Justice Powell, in writing the majority opinion, stated: "[Free speech] is indispensable to decisionmaking in a democracy, and this is not less true because speech comes from a corporation rather than an individual." The Court argued, rather naively it seems...

Author: By Alan Soudakoff, | Title: Corporate Money Stalks Capitol Hill | 5/15/1979 | See Source »

...outside politics. She reads primarily "to keep up," as she puts it, much prefers Rudyard Kipling to T.S. Eliot, rarely dines out or sees a play. Her only hobby is collecting Royal Crown Derby china. At the end of a day, she and Denis like to relax over a drink: hers is Scotch, neat and usually just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tory Wind of Change | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...observing how they interact with the body's immune system. He also reads voraciously, particularly poetry, and is teaching himself Greek so that he can read Homer in the original. The doctor's spare time is not wasted in worry; he smokes a pipe constantly, enjoys a drink before dinner, eats whatever he likes and refuses to undergo annual checkups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Celebration of Life | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...Drink the Water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: May 10-May 16 | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

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