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...rooms on the third floor. The place is difficult to find because of the way the stairway has to negotiate the boundary between the old frame building and the newer brick one, so Raia put up some signs he drew on posterboard, with Raia Tailor Shop and a pointing finger scrawled on them...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: The Square's Peg | 11/5/1975 | See Source »

...driver: "Be careful!" It was too late. Salamites' 1968 yellow Buick Le-Sabre smashed the presidential limousine on the right front fender, forcing it six feet off course. Ford was unhurt. But Frederick K. Beibel Jr., the Republican state chairman, was slammed against Ford and broke a finger. One eyewitness later reported, "The President looked scared. I'd have been scared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The President Looked Scared' | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...shapers possessed as a gift from their own ancestors a sense of a divine moral covenant. Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop called it "a mutuall consent through a specially overruleing providence." Virginia's John Rolfe saw the colonists as "a peculiar people, marked and chosen by the finger of God ..." for their "errand into the wilderness." The covenant helped them measure vice and virtue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: Vice and Virtue: Our Moral Condition | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

When the Sox finally arrived just after 1 p.m., Timilty had moved on, but the thousands who remained broke into a sustained cheer. The noise grew louder as southpaw Bill Lee stepped forward, his Sox cap on backwards, his chin hidden by beard stubble, and raised a two-finger victory salute. Then Lee stepped back...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: It's Sweetness and Light For Sox at City Hall Fete | 10/24/1975 | See Source »

...first it seems difficult to put your finger on saxophonist Gato Barbieri's current problems. But put on his incomplete "Communion" album, recorded with trumpeter Don Cherry in the early '60s (when Gato was still Leandro), and then compare it with his most recent "Alive in New York" album and you'll spot the difference immediately. It's all in the personnel...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: Jazz | 10/9/1975 | See Source »

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