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OHIO. Silver-haired and flannel-tongued Republican James Rhodes, 69, who has already served an unprecedented twelve years as Ohio's Governor, has gained considerable favor with voters by driving his own car to work, jawboning his way through all of Ohio's 88 counties and living in his own home (he says he would like to sell the Governor's mansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Revolt in the Midwest | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...that Ken and Barbie Doll have married and raised the family and presum- ably divorced, history has moved on. What wears one earring, a flannel cowboy shirt, denim jeans, and comes packaged in a cardboard closet? Gay Bob, alleged to be the first gay doll on the market. His inventor, former Advertising Executive Harvey Rosenberg, claims that Gay Bob looks like "a cross between Paul Newman and Robert Redford," and he costs $15. Rosenberg's invention is not for homosexuals alone, says an accompanying brochure: "Whether you are gay or straight, Gay Bob can help you come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Doll Lib | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...need gaze no further into the past than last season, when Harvard was in sixth place with only a week to go and two games to play. The Crimson lost to Dartmouth on a goal coming with just eight seconds left to play (a game which those flannel idiots still won't let anyone forget), but then beat Yale decisively...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: ECAC Hockey Into the Homestretch: Harvard Saddles Up | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

...sophomore at a small alternative college in Oregon, Larry was tall, bearded, and thin. Like a more famous Oregonian, Bill Walton, he often wore a wool cap, flannel shirt, and blue jeans--lumberjack garb. Nineteen-year old Larry had just had his draft physical the week before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Larry's Save-Your-Life Diet | 1/12/1978 | See Source »

...modest Warsaw apartment three intellectuals lean intently over a small worktable. One man places a sheet of blank paper over an ink-impregnated flannel cloth that is taped over a typed stencil. Another man quickly rolls an old-fashioned washing-machine wringer down the page from top to bottom. A woman deftly lifts the sheet with a pair of tweezers and lays it on top of a pile on the floor. The printed pages, produced at the rate of 700 an hour, would later be laboriously collated, bound by hand, and delivered to readers of Opinia, an underground monthly published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISM: Two Victories for the Word | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

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