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...contract with the iron to get slim, the slim work to get bulk, the got-it-together dudes keep it from disintegrating by frequent geezes of iron. If you have been casting a covetous eye on the iron ... then come on over, get right in, pump up your ego, flash your flex, kill the iron ... add more style to the iron pile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Words From the Inside Out | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

Fifty-four years ago, Calvin Coolidge was the newly inaugurated president of the United States; the same year John Sullivan came to Harvard. Coolidge, a silent flash in the panorama of presidents, did his part for America and then quietly withdrew. John Sullivan, now nearing 80, is still at Harvard, helping out the Athletic Department as per usual for the last half-century...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper, | Title: The Harvard Coop-er | 3/7/1974 | See Source »

...elite included Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, as well as several high officials who are not Jewish. He went on to name local people, besides Murphy, whom the "army" had considered kidnaping. The list included Atlanta's recently installed and amply girthed mayor, Maynard Jackson, and in a flash of mordant wit the kidnaper quipped: "We decided against the mayor because he wouldn't fit in the trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: The Politics of Terror | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...wander up and down the aisles talking, drinking and listening to piped-in rock music; Pong machines, backgammon and chess boards, and a giant denim pillow are strewn about the plane, which has no class sections. Stewardesses and stewards, who walk and talk like real people, wear ultra-violet Flash Gordon-type outfits and berets with the black and white Freelandia insignia of an open hand. What's more, they remain in their original clothes throughout the flight, thus eliminating those strange airborne fashion shows...

Author: By Sarah K. Lynch, | Title: Flying High on Air Freelandia | 2/27/1974 | See Source »

...group of Frenchmen, most of them old friends, are gathered one morning in the wine cellar of Emmanuel Comte's 13th century castle, a feudal relic named Malevil. Abruptly the noise of jackhammering doom breaks loose, followed by suffocating heat. Civilization is gone in a nuclear flash. In Comte's castle, after some flirting with suicide, the microcosmic band of friends sets about reinventing society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Instant Replay | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

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