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...press conference, Nixon appeared more relaxed, subdued and conciliatory than he has in a long time. For the most part, he fielded reporters' questions in an assured and forthright manner. He gave not the slightest hint that he either feared that any such fatal revelation might be imminent or that he would ever quit under any circumstances. Even if his continuance in office

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Seven Charged, a Report and a Briefcase | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...states in the U.S., Iowa offers the fairest distribution of athletic funds, sports programs and practice facilities. About the only time there may be a hint of athletic sexism is when the state basketball championships are played off in Des Moines. There the girls' games often outdraw the boys'. For next week's girls' basketball finals, virtually all the 15,000 seats in the Veterans Memorial Auditorium have already been sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SEXES: Locker Room Lib | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...cast was given an impossible job--acting a play with no characterization, no good writing, and no real ideas--and even the resourceful director, Robert Berger, couldn't salvage everything. The Leverett House Arts Society should have taken a hint from Cotton Mather of the class of 1678. He knew what to do with witches...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Low Stakes | 3/9/1974 | See Source »

...Bolivia. Above the tree line, this gaping wasteland is broken only by the occasional adobe huts and the surrounding protective adobe walls of the Aymara Indians, who have scratched out a living here for countless centuries. Soon the huts become more numerous, and further on there is a hint of the nearing metropolis in the frantic crowds of women and children who descend upon the bus at every stop trying to sell meager greasy pastries and bottles of sugary soda. The road continues on through the stark plateau...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Bolivia | 2/22/1974 | See Source »

...champion scatologists, he argues, are Germans, who tend to roll in the aisles after the first hint of a comic's outhouse smirk. Is martinet toilet training the explanation? Farb wonders but never decides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Confusion of Tongues | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

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