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...that area Jackson boasts one of the most liberal voting records in the Senate. He also takes issue with Nixon on economic policies. On revenue sharing: "The Nixon Administration is misleading the states and cities into thinking they are going to get something." On inflation: "Their formula to lick high prices is to see that no one has the money to pay them." The Republican Party, he says in summation, "is a museum of threadbare ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Democrats' Liberal Hawk on Capitol Hill | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...planner told the CRIMSON that nobody had been interested, a filthy lie. In response to my comment, a nonbeliever said, "Yeah, and Wild Man Fischer can be a Dean of Something." See what I mean? Beefheart is a much-maligned genius: an advertisement he filmed for his new album Lick My Decals Off, Baby, was refused TV airtime because it was "obscene." (It consisted of a cigarette flipping through the air in slow motion, Rockette Morton walking across the screen with a sack over his head working a hand eggbeater, Beefheart kicking over a can of white paint in slow...

Author: By Cedric Finberg, | Title: Beefheart Mania: Do You Believe? | 3/19/1971 | See Source »

Fall Moore did, in the predicted round?right before a crowd of more than 15,000 in Los Angeles, who had turned out to see if Gaseous Cassius could pull off his coup. Even Jack Dempsey was impressed. "I don't care if this kid can't fight a lick. I'm for him. Things are live again." Cassius then lit out after Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston, verbally assaulting "the big ugly bear" at his training camp, at the airport and even at Sonny's home at 3 a.m. When they finally tangled on Feb. 25, 1964, Listen failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bull v. Butterfly: A Clash of Champions | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...combat for the puck behind the net, the boiling free-for-all over real or imagined irregularities. And as in football, the team that establishes its physical superiority is most often the one that wins. Says Conn Smythe, former president of the Toronto Maple Leafs: "You can't lick 'em on the ice if you can't lick 'em in the alley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Maggie the Policeman | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

Barring an unlikely Bowdoin upset. Harvard and Clarkson will have a chance to fight it out in the championship game while Yale tries to avoid yet another loss as the Polar Bears lick their wounds in the consolation game...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Harvard and Clarkson May Meet In ECAC Christmas Tournament | 12/18/1970 | See Source »

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