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...shape-just in case. There are graduates who grow frustrated and bitter, and there are those who accept what is available with good humor and hope for better times. Paul Creasey, 25, a U.C.L.A. history B.A., had hoped to become a management trainee but instead mans a spray hose for a commercial pesticide company. "It's not exactly what I had in mind," says he, "but any port in a storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EMPLOYMENT: Slim Pickings for the Class of '76 | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...phone had been tapped in the 1969 leak investigation, charged that to Kissinger, "the criterion of classification has become intensely personal"-anything embarrassing to him is "top secret" but anything helpful to him "can be leaked with impunity." As Kissinger had discovered, the news leak is like a slippery hose, capable of spraying both those who use it and those who try to shut it off-and the Secretary had been drenched both ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECRETARY OF STATE: Under Fire and on the Attack | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...brothers, Tom and Jerry Ritter. Tom is an introspective family man who wonders what Spinoza and Kant would say about union politics. Jerry swings through Manhattan's East Side, spouting Dylan Thomas and Yeats. Both vote against the strike, but only one sticks by his conscience - and his hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Some Like It Hot | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

...case, merely decent shots got a hearty round of applause and the great shots brought the hose down. Spectators continually wandered around the press area trying to find the broadcast booth and one woman wanted to look into the booth because she heard Billie Jean and her husband Larry were there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navratilova Wins Women's Tennis Title | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

Rome is not known for a shortage of scantily clad prostitutes. Most of the girls are all remarkably handsome, but one slinky, dark-eyed ragazzaccia in garters and black hose was a real bam-bola (doll). It was Sophia Loren, just turned 40, who had strayed away from the camera crew for her new movie Gun Moll, in which she plays a former whore. Neorealism proved too much for one passing truck driver. He leaned out of his truck crying "Che bona!" and made Sophia an offer. Rebuffed, he sadly muttered: "Peccato! That one was stacked just like Sophia Loren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 14, 1974 | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

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