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...poem is in this recoiling; Squire M'Fingal's bombast bursts upon his own head and makes Toryism ridiculous. As the squire blunders on, he defends even Britain's encouragement of Indians "t'amuse themselves with scalping knives." As for General Gage's occupation of Boston, "his mercy is without dispute/ his first and darling attribute." The general tried to seize the stores of powder and arms at Concord merely to prevent the Patriots from harming themselves, "as prudent folks take knives away,/ Lest children cut themselves at play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Patriotic Malice | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...UMass administration is adopting a "wait-and-see" position on the issue of student unionization. "I don't think we have a position of being for or against it," said Robert W. Gage, vice-chancellor for student affairs at the campus...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras, | Title: UMass Organizers Want Student Union | 2/18/1976 | See Source »

...after a stint touring with the Dead, the Riders began to work up a following of their own. But by this time, sans Garcia, they'd lost their spatial the dimension--their music became more linear and descriptive, more ridin-my-pony-to-San-Antone, with that Buddy Gage steel soaring nimbly overhead...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: ROCK | 8/15/1975 | See Source »

...components that it felt civilian firms could handle. The U.S. Government felt it could more efficiently manage some parts of the $335 million enterprise itself. Thus the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was given the $62 million job of building modern barracks for the Saudi guard. But the Cadillac Gage Co. was given a civilian contract to build armored cars for Faisal's troops. No fewer than eight U.S. companies submitted bids for the troop-training contract. It was won by Vinnell with a bid of $76.9 million, of which the Pentagon as primary contractor, in keeping with standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Executive Mercenaries | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...agree with the SWP's political views, have seen fit to endorse the suit as well. These sponsors include: Eric Bentley, the Berrigans, Noam Chomsky, Rep. Ron Dellums (D-Calif.), Daniel Ellsberg, Jules Feiffer (who has also designed a PRDF button), Erich Fromm, Ruth Gage-Colby, Dick Gregory, Eugene McCarthy, Arthur Miller, Norman Mailer (though not Maxwell Taylor), Gloria Steinem, I.F. Stone, George Wald, George Novack and many others...

Author: By Albert Cassorla, | Title: The Watergate Nobody Knows | 3/26/1974 | See Source »

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