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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lookin' for violence? I got lots of guys in the dock who can give you violence," one of the sargeants responded when I asked if reports of any "incidents" had come in. "No, son," he said, shaking his head, "There ain't going to be much violence this year...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...lookin' for violence? I got lots of guys in the dock who can give you violence," one of the sargeants responded when I asked if reports of any "incidents" had come in. "No, son," he said, shaking his head, "There ain't going to be much violence this year...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

Hank Williams, Jr. was barely two years old on the December night his father died in the back seat of a Cadillac in southern West Virginia, minutes after finishing his last gig. Williams pere casts an awesome shadow over country music--"Jambalaya," "Hey Good Lookin'" and "Your Cheatin' Heart" have entered the pantheon of American popular music...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Brand New Country Star | 4/10/1976 | See Source »

...handlers on tugboats, airplane welders, bulldozer operators and a deep-sea diver. All recruits go through rugged basic training, learning to shoot and strip rifles (just in case they ever have to in an emergency) and slog through mud, with full packs, to cadence-counting chants ("Standin' tall and lookin' good/ We ought to be in Hollywood . . .") The service academies are preparing for women in the classes that will be admitted next summer. West Point will take in about 100 women cadets, the Naval Academy 80 and the Air Force Academy 100. The women will wear handsomely cut uniforms, basically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN OF THE YEAR: Great Changes, New Chances, Tough Choices | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

...same way two times in a row. On the Band tour he sharpened the tone of "It ain't me Babe," to an almost David Bowie bitchiness: "But it still ain't me babe/ No, no, no, it sure ain't me babe/ It ain't me you're lookin' for babe." This time he syncopated the lines, "I'm not the one you want babe," giving it a jazzy flavor. The first half of the show closed with a new love song, "Isis," that sounded like the parable from John Wesley Harding, "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: On the Street Again | 11/7/1975 | See Source »

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