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FIRST THING IS you see the posters up, typically pretentious Harvard posters printed on fine paper with black serif letters--you just know the University wouldn't mimeograph its announcements--telling the time of the contest and when and where you have to bring a copy of your selection beforehand...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Big Game | 4/20/1976 | See Source »

Prosecutor Bancroft, 38, a husky, tenacious man, tried the psychiatrist's temper during cross-examination but failed to shake his testimony or to attack his credentials successfully. Oddly, the prosecution did not bring up one bizarre episode in West's career: killing an elephant with an overdose of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Battle over Patty's Mind | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

Even without the weekly batch of transients, the Russian presence in Luxembourg is about as subtle as an elephant at a garden party. Ambassador Yevgeni Kosarev, a dour commissar-type who bores his fellow diplomats at cocktail parties by talking endlessly about grain crops, supervises an embassy of 36 Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUXEMBOURG: Grand Duchy of Spooks | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Outside the terminal, about 400 feet away, an artist named Enoch L. Stamey, 38, could see his breath in the cold night air as he waited for a limousine to take him up to Woodbridge, Conn. In the building, Edythe Bull, an energetic, 72-year-old nature lover and retired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The La Guardia Blast: 'My God It Was Terrible!' | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

Democrats cried foul. The new name "implies they have severed relations with the national party," grumped State D.F.L. Chairman Ulric Scott. "An Independent-Republican is an elephant that is trying to forget." Furthermore, he slyly suggested to the state consumer affairs department, the title constitutes deceptive advertising. Minnesota's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Can an Elephant Forget? | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

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