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...heavyweight, freshman Scott Meadow, who was a foot shorter and 80 pounds lighter than his Princeton opponent, was pinned in 1:43. It was Meadow's first varsity match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Suffer Defeats at Easterns | 3/2/1974 | See Source »

...being confronted with the letters, Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to eight years of hard labor, plus "perpetual exile"; Vitkevich got ten years, without exile. But last week Vitkevich claimed that Solzhenitsyn had betrayed him and three other people, including the writer's own wife, in order to get "a lighter sentence." As proof, Vitkevich alleged that when he was released in 1957, he was shown part of the record of Solzhenitsyn's 1945 interrogation, bearing notes in Solzhenitsyn's handwriting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: A Fortress of Newsprint | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

...week. It is probably the only beer that is kept cold from the brewery to the customer. But its lack of additives and its brewing process greatly enhance its taste. For many connoisseurs, Coors is the Château Haut-Brion of American beers; to their palates, it is lighter, milder, drier and less bitter than most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BREWING: The Beer That Won the West | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

Minim says "In my opinion, the trouble with women's magazines in the past is that they have been relentlessly one-dimensional, recognizing only a women's acceptable lighter side, refusing to acknowledge her sexuality, her anger and her tears. I'll be damned if Playgirl falls into that trap." But in fact Playgirl and Viva editors, writers, and photographers acknowledge a woman sexually only as ogled objects of men's lust rather than active reciprocal partners in sexual relationships...

Author: By Ruth C. Streeter, | Title: Graphic Stimulation: Driving Her Wild | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...telephone, behind her and at arm's length to her left, rang. She took off her earphones with both her hands, reached for the stop button with her right hand but by mistake must have hit the record button, which is next to the stop button but of a lighter gray color. With her left hand she reached back for the phone, cradled it under her chin and talked to the caller?although she could not remember who it was. She estimated the length of the call variously from 4½ to 6 minutes. Throughout, she said at first, she kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CRISIS: The Secretary and the Tapes Tangle | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

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