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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to make her over," Cindy, executive director of Miss California, observes. But the relentless aim of the group is to help Christine acquire what the judges' guide describes as "the necessary beauty and wholesomeness to appeal to the American public." The variables considered include talent, hair, makeup, gowns, poise and walk, and conversation. The Betamax affirms that where talent is concerned, Christine should have the contest pretty well sewed up. Her rendering of Bartok's Hungarian Peasant Songs on the flute is professional, pure and austere when compared with the frothier offerings of other contestants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Practicing Swimsuit for Atlantic City | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...because gravity is so weak at long range, detecting its waves, says Harvard's Smarr, is "like measuring fluctuations in the dis tance between the earth and sun equal to the diameter of a human hair." So far no one has been able to accomplish that feat. But investigators in the U.S. and abroad are hoping to succeed with a new generation of extremely sensitive gravity detectors that rely on lasers, devices using superchilled metals and other advanced gadgetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Those Baffling Black Holes | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

Another Mem Hall tradition is Mr. Test When you take your first Mem Hall exam you will see him; a rotund man, his bald pate rimmed by electro-shock curly hair, a bottle of soda surgically grafted to his hand and his mellifluous bass vice oozing out of the corners of the giant mead hall in which exams are given...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Crazy Bob's Tour of Harvard, (Or What's Under All That Ivy, Sir?) | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...night was March 6, 1973, and Bertagna--currently Harvard's sports information director and at the time the starting goaltender for the Crimson's hockey team--was scarfing a cheeseburg club at Elsie's Deli, his hair still wet from a shower at Dillon Field House...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Sports at Harvard: Hard to Figure | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

...severe cataracts removed, is sterile, and must take two dozen pills a day. His problems, he insists, stem from his two years as an Army radar repairman on Iwo Jima during World War II when he was so severely exposed to microwaves that his brown hair turned red. Says he: "I was cooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Are Americans Being Zapped? | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

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