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Handy, playing in the number-two position, had the easiest time. After taking the first game by a 16-14 margin, Handy's opponent, Mimi Stockman, defaulted, giving the triumph to Radcliffe...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Radcliffe Squash Wins Opener, Tops Wellesley by 3-2 Margin | 12/4/1974 | See Source »

...Palestine Liberation Organization participate in its debate on the Palestinian question. Buoyed by rocketing oil prices, Arab economic power has reached impressive levels. Beyond that, the Arabs feel that Israel no longer has an undisputed military lead. As one Egyptian intellectual noted, "It's obvious that today the easiest way for a European country to balance its payments is to sell arms to the Arabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Arab Summit: Strength and Splits | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...easiest way to combat inflationary food prices is to apply the old maxim: no ifs, no ands, no Butz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Sep. 23, 1974 | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...coal will be one of the saving alternatives to oil as an energy source, and the easiest way to meet the nation's rising coal needs is to strip-mine. But strip mining - ripping off a top layer of earth to get at the coal underground - has done so much damage in the past that it is a prime target for environmentalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Defeat for the Strippers | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

Chop-Chop Cups. The conjurers had forgotten that their heroes were also afflicted with nostalgia, that Houdini himself had borrowed his name from an earlier performer, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, a 19th century French prestidigitator. Moreover, as the magicians should have known, scientists are the easiest to fool. They seek rational explanations for contrived phenomena, connections where none exist. Magicians were in fact doing what they had always persuaded their audiences to do: they were looking the wrong way. "We magicians are notorious for staring in the rear-view mirror," says Semipro Charles Reynolds, picture editor of Popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Magic Boom: New Sorcery | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

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