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...discourage advances from the Spanish Lady. Paranoia often took the place of ineffective remedies. There were those who thought the bug was the Kaiser's secret weapon, despite the losses his own troops suffered. In Poland, the source of infection was said to be Warsaw's Jewish ghetto. Those whose prejudices were more political called it the Bolshevik disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pale Horse, Pale Rider | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

...resembles a fish hook ... To win your intended lover, hook the fishbone into his clothing. . ." Faith Cross, a backwoods believer, journeys to Chicago and becomes first a wholehearted whore, then an adipose housewife, anesthetized by hair spray and appliance hum, then, cast off and pregnant, the victim of a ghetto fire Finally back in Georgia, withered and maimed, she completes the seven ages of black woman (something like this seems to be in the author's mind) by be coming a swamp witch herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smoky Legend | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...impeachment committee's former counsel, John Door, 53, went for speed. Stephen Smith, 47, opted instead for some fancy figure work. Meanwhile, Ethel Kennedy, 46, who was holding the ninth Christmas skating party for the children of Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant ghetto, got to know her guests. "Hold me up please," she joked to a small muffled figure wobbling round the newly opened local rink, built by a fund-raising organization begun in 1967 by her late husband Bobby. Just a couple of days later and across New York City, former Mayor John Lindsay, 53, went skating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 30, 1974 | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the school is not unique in its substandard educational offerings. There are countless South Boston Highs around the nation. As long as they exist, neither blacks bused in to them from ghetto schools nor the whites who already attend them will have a chance for a decent education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Southie Boils Over | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

Moms appears as Grace Teasdale Grimes, a resident of a Baltimore ghetto who, with the aid of her man friend Forthwith (Slappy White), helps her next-door neighbor get elected mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Black Power | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

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