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...Habit and tradition are insufficient reasons for the United States to continue supporting the United Nations, he said, adding that the United States must have "current" justification for such support...

Author: By Robert Lunbeck, | Title: Dershowitz Blasts U.N. | 10/29/1975 | See Source »

...Reported Press Secretary Ron Nessen: "The President is not going to send money to New York." Nessen made a rather silly comparison between New York and a wayward daughter on drugs. Said he: "Would you help her? Are you going to give her $100 a day to support her habit? The answer is no. You tell her she's got to go cold turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK CITY: Saved Again From the Jaws of Default | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...milieu in which the person grew up, like a trip backwards in time and vertically in class. And since the celebrities are ordered alphabetically, you get some pretty stranged juxtapositions. One minute you're at the White House with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who always thought kissing was "a disgusting habit" and seems fairly contemptuous of the whole subject and the next minute you're in Butcher Hollow, Ky., with Loretta Lynn, who got married at the age of 13 knowing so little about sex that by the time she was 17 she had four children and "didn't even know...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: Guilt, Trivia and a Prolonged Giggle | 10/15/1975 | See Source »

...least two of her children to die (ever wonder why they have so many kids?) and has a pretty good shot at dying in childbirth herself, or from its inevitable complications. This is one reason Bengali men live longer than the women (the other is that Bengalis have a habit of killing female children, on the theory that boys will support them when they are old and weak, whereas girls will cost them a dowry...

Author: By Nick Eberstadt, | Title: Hunger and Bureaucracy in Bangladesh | 10/11/1975 | See Source »

...have nothing to do with mundane arguments over their lack of right-handed power-hitting. It doesn't bother me that Joe Morgan should and will become "The Sporting News" MVP, even though Greg Luzinski may be more deserving. I don't care if the Reds' management has a habit of ruining young pitchers' arms--even if they take time out to reincarnate them a la Gary Nolan...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: You Don't Have to be a Sox Fan to Hate the Reds | 10/10/1975 | See Source »

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