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...After a few words to the 45,000 Japanese fans in Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium, Hank, clad in mufti, slammed a ball into the leftfield bleachers while the crowd chanted: "Aaron, Aaron, Aaron!" Hammerin' Hank even toted along a special present for Oh, who has a peculiar habit of raising his right leg in the air before the pitch. Aaron's gift: a stuffed flamingo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 3, 1977 | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...addition to his tranquilizer habit, Hughes injected himself with a mysterious clear liquid that knocked him out so violently that the syringe was often left dangling in his arm. According to Personal Aide Howard Eckersley, the liquid was a codeine solution. Hughes, who called the drugs "my goodies," would toss a codeine tablet into a water-filled hypodermic and shake the syringe until the pill melted. Then he would give himself a shot; if he could find a vein in his wizened body, he would mainline the injection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Howard Hughes' Messy Legacy | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...paraphrase Justice Holmes, no one has the right to stand up in our perturbed and restless society and cry, without adequate cause, 'Cancer! Alarm! Cancer!'...So enjoy your food, and their [sic] additives, and get in the habit of eating a varied diet, and less as you grow older...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Just a Bowl of Nitrites | 9/30/1977 | See Source »

...this habit of makin' the same thing sound both good and bad, like he's an optimist and a pessimist at the same time. Nasty little habit, you know, because his real thoughts tend to get buried upstairs, with all the xxxxx's and ooooo...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: I've Got A Secret (Or) Say It Ain't So, Joe | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

...most of the converts, the discipline of Bhajanism seems to have rilled a deep spiritual vacuum. Many are in their mid-20s and come from upper-middle-class homes. A number had been dependent upon LSD and marijuana; the movement claims that all have broken the habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Yogi Bhajan's Synthetic Sikhism | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

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