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This time Poitier plays an Atlanta milkman named Clyde. Cosby is his best pal, a factory worker called Billy. With their wives, they take a weekend's jaunt to New Orleans, where they hope to raise money for the Sons and Daughters of Shaka, their ailing lodge back home. Their scheme does not promise success - or an especially funny movie: they hypnotize an emaciated, canvas-backed middleweight contender named Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker) to give him inner and outer strength. Then they put their money on the unlikely pug to beat a nasty pro named 40th Street Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Black-and-Tan Fantasy | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...other clash, Dartmouth's junior varsity drove 65 yards on its initial possession for the first period's only scoring. Aided by a 33--yard pass-interference call against Harvard, Dartmouth tallied on a 12-yard jaunt by Frank Wilson...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Green Downs Jayvees, 28-13; Harvard Frosh Falter, 21-7 | 10/25/1975 | See Source »

...return to the White House left him with a case of the intellectual bends. As a friend of David Kennedy, the President's ubiquitous young photographer, Jack met Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger, and made his way onto the New York City pop-celebrity circuit. On one Manhattan jaunt, Jack, Bianca and Kennerly dropped in at Le Jardin, a discotheque frequented by gays and in-crowd types. Jack later told friends: "I was dancing with Bianca and a fellow came up to me and tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'May I dance?' I thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Jack Ford: 'My Turn to Sacrifice' | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

...with a 27-7 shellacking of Columbia. The Lions pawed their way to a 7-0 first quarter lead on the strength of an 87-yard march, Kirk Combs leaping over the goalline from a yard out. But Princeton quickly knotted the affair on Art Walker's three yard jaunt late in the period...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Brown, Dartmouth Win | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...trip-his third domestic jaunt in as many months-began on Monday afternoon when Kissinger and his wife Nancy flew to Milwaukee in an eight-seat Air Force Jetstar along with one aide, a State Department security officer, two Secret Service agents and a local Republican Congressman, Robert W. Kasten. En route the Secretary, as usual, fussed over the latest drafts of his forthcoming speeches (see box next page), which, typically, had already gone through a dozen versions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN POLICY: Kissinger in The Heartland | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

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