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Further, Americans have always worshiped at the fountain of youth, and here is Riggs, one of the most publicized and highest paid athletes over 50 in history, telling them that F. Scott Fitzgerald was wrong and there are second sets in American lives. Says Perenchio, who also masterminded the Ali-Frazier fight: "Riggs is the Muhammad Ali of the Geritol set." As Bobby boasts: "I've got Bobby's battalions all over the country, the over-45 guys who want to see one of their own make it big. I know beating a woman isn't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bobby Runs and Talks, Talks, Talks | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

...clock guard in Widener Library to protect the books and catalog. Early this year, when The Crimson held its centennial celebration a Crimson editor from the Class of '70 sent his check for the dinner with a note on embossed stationary from Washington magazine where he works. In fountain pen script, the note started: "My wife, Debbie, and I..." The turnabout is complete...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: They Will Try to Get You to Sell Out | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...climate of fear it self. Tourism and mainland investments have declined. Unemployment averages about 4.8%, but is far higher among young native blacks. Moreover, many lower-paying jobs are held by "aliens," nonwhites from other Caribbean islands. Declares Mario N. de Chabert, one of the defense attorneys in the Fountain Valley trial: "The continental is looked upon as a stranger. His children go to private schools, he hires aliens who are willing to accept poor wages and worse working conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VIRGIN ISLANDS: Panic Among the Continentals | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...dull gray streets and squares of the most rigidly doctrinaire Soviet-bloc country in Europe last week looked more like Watkins Glen than East Berlin. Along broad Karl-Marx-Allee strolled long-haired young men and women from every continent, laughing and singing. In the big fountain on Alexanderplatz, young people waded, danced and kissed. Their joy was punctuated by the loud beat of dozens of rock combos and brass bands and the music of choral groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Youthfest in Berlin | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

...ONCE SAW a modern dance performance, inspired during the few years when "happenings" were in vogue. It consisted of, a) bodies winding themselves in sheets of brown wrapping paper, b) bodies taking off their clothes, c) bodies kicking bowls in the pool at the base of a fountain for an hour and a half. Was the audience supposed to get something out of the spectable just because it was passing in front of their eyeballs? The only concession the choreographer had made was to choose the performers on the basis of beauty rather than dance ability--Presumably so that...

Author: By Sarah M. Wood, | Title: All Form and No Feeling | 8/7/1973 | See Source »

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