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Basketball Star Connie Hawkins, 33, has suffered defeats before, but never one as decisive as his recent 20-0 loss in a one-on-one game with 5-ft. 4-in. Singer Paul Simon. Actually, it was the script rather than Simon's erratic defense that kept the 6...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 20, 1975 | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

The skits are clever enough. A marriage breaks up over the respective merits of Greta Garbo and Donald Duck. But the punchlines are too facile (man to lemming: only thing I don't understand about you lemmings is why you run to the sea and drown yourselves. Lemming to man...

Author: By Amy Wilentz, | Title: Out to Lunch | 10/18/1975 | See Source »

Vonnegut, 28, was wise to the ways of innocence. At Swarthmore College he majored in religion and registered as a conscientious objector. At his draft physical, his erratic behavior earned him 4-F military rating. Mark, his girl and some other friends then bought an abandoned farm in British Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paradise Lost | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

Local talk proclaims that the Scots like the Americans better than the English. That could possibly be all too true. Scottish nationalists are on the march, declaring in stickers everywhere: IT'S SCOTLAND'S OIL. The growing Scottish National party favors an independent Scotland, with its own Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Bustling Tartan Texas Rolls Out the Barrel | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the extra-slow pace of August price boosts is no more likely to continue than was the earlier super-rapid rate; both were distorted by the erratic timing of food-price movements. Nonfood portions of the CPI are still rising at an annual rate of 6% to 7%, indicating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Inflation Slowdown | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

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