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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marion Belliveau, associate Registrar of the College, said Monday that "the letter is evidently a joke." She said she assumed that students working with the Registrar had quietly inserted the mimeographed letter into arbitrary Radcliffe folders...

Author: By Helen Hershkoff, | Title: Sex and Humor at Harvard | 9/28/1971 | See Source »

Next on the list, "Hawkins and Grabber," written by Joel and Steve themselves. Set in the Stars and Stripes Forever Bar and Grill, the skit pretends show us two old war buddies, reunited for some mutual drinking and consolation. The joke is that under all their boasting and one-upmanship (Hawkins is in oil, Grabber builds planes, Grabber has one Rolls Royce, Hawkins has two) there is only a couple of scared men threatened by a world of "commy pinko cruddy bums." The fact that that last line is meant to get a knowing laugh should give you some idea...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Changes | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

...crossed, and Amri broke into a conversation between Mohsen Harazi, who owned a small camera shop in the capital, San'a, and a friend. Thinking that he was talking to his military subordinate, Amri identified himself as the Premier. Harazi, thinking that his friend was playing a joke, laughed. One thing led to another, and soon the two were trading insults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YEMEN: Crossed Wires | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...eight-page weekly written primarily for 60,000 party members who contribute $25 or more. A mixture of puffs, jabs, slurs and short news items, Monday is happily taking pot shots at Democratic presidential hopefuls. It quoted former Senator Eugene McCarthy: "Have you heard the latest Polish joke? It's Ed Muskie." McCarthy wrote to Monday denying the gag, but he did not deny another quote the weekly had attributed to him: "If Muskie had been Paul Revere, he'd have shouted during his warning ride, The British have been here for four days.' " Monday headlined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Monday Master | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

With only five weeks remaining until South Viet Nam's October election, there was still no end in sight to the political snafu that has become at once a bitter joke in cynical Saigon and a source of deep embarrassment to Washington. So long as Thieu held the lines of governmental power and could steer the results in his favor, neither retired General Duong Van ("Big") Minh nor South Viet Nam's feisty Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky would consent to run as opposition candidates. That left Thieu the sole contender, knocking the underpinnings from the U.S. contention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: South Viet Nam's Fifth No | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

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