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...lightweight and heavyweight crews, if you play your stereo right. Both of these teams are going to be on the Charles, but only the lightweight crew is at home. They'll be facing Navy in the Haines Cup race. The winner gets a year's supply of panty hose, no charge. The fun will start at 9:45 Saturday morning when the frosh shove off, continues through the J.V. race at 10:45 and climaxes with the varsity encounter...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: The Gist Is Gusto | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

...Pale Hose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOREBOARD | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...Guardsmen scrambled aboard two old-fashioned civil defense fire trucks and sped toward a blaze reported out of control in the student quarters of King's College Hospital Medical School. When the troops arrived 15 minutes later, after taking one wrong turn, their low-pressure pumps failed to hose water as high as the third floor; flames were already licking at the roof. Worse, ladders extended only to the second floor. Finally deciding to fight the blaze from above, the soldiers climbed to the roof and managed to extinguish the flames after a 90-minute battle. Said an experienced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: When Firemen Stop Fighting | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...Governor." Dai-ton's campaign literature asserts that, as Governor, "Howling Henry" would howl to a tune composed by George Meany. Dalton also has warned that cops and firemen would be "too busy collective bargaining" to chase criminals and put out fires. At one rally, Dalton waved a garden hose at the crowd to dramatize the supposed dangers of a firemen's strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Two Tight Gubernatorial Races | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...Again, Mobil seems to be the chief villain. This summer it launched a new program whereby prominent cartoonists were hired to draw cartoons subtly embued with the Mobil message. An example is one by Roy Doty of a man standing in his back yard, axing to bits a rubber hose which was in the process of supplying water for his inflatable swimming pool. Another man turns to a puzzled neighbor and says, "He's explaining how breaking up the oil companies would work." Another cartoon by Robert Weper has a store clerk explaining a new game to a customer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Madison Avenue Slick | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

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