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...years. Sherri, meanwhile, has progressed above the club circuit, and rapidly becomes more popular than Clearasil with the youth of Canada. The two meet again at a promotional event, and Duke persuades her to attend one of his games. She does, is repelled by the violence, the horrid signs (Leafs are out to KILL!!!), and Duke's presence in the penalty box. They both split on tours, but Sherri just can't forget Billy Duke ("I'm younger, stronger and tougher, and that's why you dig me," he says.) When he is hospitalized following a brawl at Los Angeles...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Winter Comes Early | 3/23/1972 | See Source »

...airline industry is like the little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead. When the industry is good, it is very, very good; but when it is bad it is horrid. After nearly two years of being absolutely awful, largely because the U.S. economy was sluggish, the highly cyclical air-travel business appears headed for good times once again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: Takeoff to Recovery | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...Crimson golfers are finally hitting their stride after a month of troubles, or maybe they're just getting used to playing in horrid weather conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Win Two in Rain; Beat Indians, Crusaders | 4/30/1971 | See Source »

...NIXON'S horrid ruse has, for the moment, succeeded. Nearly a month after the bombing and armed incursion into North Vietnam, most of America remains quiet, convinced that these macabre acts are somehow connected with his professed concern for a few hundred prisoners...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: Meehanized Murder Nuclear Bombs in Vietnam? | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...edited by Tony Goodstone. 239 pages. Chelsea House. $15. Mayhem, rape, demonology and interplanetary carnage in a representative sampling from Mammoth Adventure, War Aces, Thrilling Wonder, Western Trails, Spicy Detective, etc., including facsimile ads for "nose shapers," neckties that glow in the dark and "real live pet turtles." The horrid yarns still entertain and-because they have been so outdone by TV and today's other de-scribers of mindless violence-they are even soothing in a creaky, campy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deck the Shelves: For $3.95 and Up | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

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