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...Fifteen persons, the largest number to die in a single incident, were killed when a large bomb, containing perhaps as much as 100 Ibs of gelignite, pulverized McGurk's Pub. a cheery, shabby Catholic bar located on the edge of downtown Belfast. As a British major helped direct the rescue operation, a sniper mortally wounded him with a bullet in the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ULSTER: The Murder of Santa Claus | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

...raising eight children, including three sets of twins. According to the account at the latest report, she had no outside activity at that time other than an interest in the P.T.A., but was apparently content, if not serene. Of course, such tranquility may be gone now, fifteen years later...

Author: By Tom Crane, | Title: Herrnstein Once Again | 12/15/1971 | See Source »

...waitresses would also like to see a 15 per cent tip included in the bill as it is payment for a service and not a gratuity. The Harvard "preppie" for whom Welch says Cronin's exists "always leaves a tip, and it always amounts to a dime or fifteen cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waitresses Picket Cronin's To Demand Bargaining Agent | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...Reader's Digest -The Most Unforgettable Psychopath I Ever Met. After that trauma on the staircase, young Jimmy Graham's father Harry (Robert Mitchum) is eventually convicted of his wife's murder and sent to the state pen. Jimmy is dispatched to an orphanage. Fifteen years later, Jimmy (Jan-Michael Vincent) goes looking for his father. He has been paroled, and is now scratching out a living as a mechanic in a small town on the New Jersey shore, sustained by his girl friend (Brenda Vaccaro). Vengeance, not forgiveness, is the reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Puerile Pilgrimage | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...Environment." to "The Human Environment." Stanford women are taking non-credit courses in car repair, and liberationists at Berkeley have organized informal classes in karate. The result, according to one Berkeley woman, is that "men here are a little less likely now to try something with a woman." Fifteen members of the Women's Activist Movement at Wisconsin last week marched into the university's "red gym," hitherto reserved exclusively for men, and demanded the right to use the basketball courts and the showers. So far, they have been allowed to play but not wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: From Coeducation to Equality | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

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