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...step, a premature Marxist, a premature anti-Communist." His students best remember him as a teacher who, as one of them put it, "pounds, pounds, pounds away at us." Says another: "Sure, we have class discussions, but you really have to think before you speak or he'll knock you down in one second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Professor Out of Step | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

...call this bit of New York City crime busting a new low in senseless brutality, racial exploitation and pandering to an audience. However, it only fits a pattern set by such sleazy predecessors as Cool Breeze and Super Fly. Three black hoods who are down on their luck knock over a numbers bank in Harlem, getting away with $300,000 and killing a couple of cops and a gaggle of gangsters. The constabulary, the Mafia and the black crime organization that ran the bank each embark on a separate campaign to bring the bandits to rights and, of course, start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

Gambril. Like most of the team, is thinking more of Dartmough and a chance to knock off the top team in the league, than today's unimportant meet with Army. The Canary trip, and the training it will afford, may put the Crimson in a more favorable position for January than it has ever enjoyed...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Swimmers Face Army Today | 12/16/1972 | See Source »

This year CCNY has had only one match, which they won, topping Yale, 14-13, Yale is usually not much of a fencing power, although the Elis did knock Harvard out of sole possession of second place in the last match of last season...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Harvard Fencers Meet CCNY Today In First Strong Challenge to Crimson | 12/9/1972 | See Source »

Both Gallos live quietly in houses on the Modesto vineyard. They arrive at the office at precisely 8 a.m., spend the day in frequent communication with each other, and knock off at 7 p.m. When the Gallos entertain, usually for visiting company executives, they serve only their own wines-a white, a pink, a red and a champagne. Says Ernest: "Only when Mrs. Gallo and I are at home alone, which is not very frequently, will I drink my competitors' wines in order to follow their progress." Ernest and Julio are both at the age when many men retire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: American Wine Comes of Age | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

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