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...freshman squash team remained undefeated, wreaking havoc on the laminated plywood at Andover with a 7-2 win over the host team...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Freshman Sports | 2/19/1976 | See Source »

...addition, Wilson said in the article that now better methods are available to terrorists than nuclear bombs to "create havoc," such as nerve gas and biological weapons...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Wilson Says Security Needed For Nuclear Plants in Future | 1/20/1976 | See Source »

...result is a prescription that "order" is wrong and that "sub-normal twits and gibbering hunks of animality" should inherit the earth. Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) arrives at a relatively quiet ward in a mental institution, where three-quarters of the patients are "voluntaries," and he proceeds to wreak havoc. The only crazy thing about him, he claims, is that all he wants to do is "fight and fuck." The state work farm has referred him to the doctors, who think he's faking. He does his best to show them they're wrong...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Off the Bus, Off the Wall | 1/14/1976 | See Source »

Soon after the global financial havoc wrought by soaring oil, food and fertilizer prices, the Trilateral issued a paper calling for a turning point in world economic relations to prevent the financial collapse of the Third World. The Trilateral advocated that Oil Producing and Exporting Countries (OPEC) double its current foreign aid contribution of $3 billion and channel it through the World Bank. Trilateral nations would then supply a 3 per cent interest subsidy and guarantee loans made to developing countries. The advantage of this plan for the Trilateral nations is that the World Bank, which they control, would...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Carter's Trilateral Connection | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...this particular summer weekend Norman arrives to feed his ravenous libido at the country house of his sister-in-law, gentle Annie. He also wreaks havoc on his relations. "I'm a three-a-day man," he declares, beating his puny chest. With virtuoso cunning, he almost makes the boast good. Annie, then his angry wife, and even stuck-up Sarah (another sister-in-law), fall into his arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Lover Takes All | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

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