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Lopsided Philanthropy. Hixson draws an understanding portrait of Summerlin, a charming, disorganized South Carolinian who could never get his lab in order or his correspondence answered. He paints a somewhat more ambiguous picture of Good, a zealot who starts his working days in the predawn hours when most of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skin Deep | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

The Crimson lost by the lopsided score of 18-9, yet the players said the setback could be attributed to a home court advantage, poor officiating, and a questionable lamey (protective jacket). Most of the individual bouts were close and decided by the little things that seem magnified after a...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Big Red Cuts Down Swordsmen, 18-9; Cornell Sabers Leap to 7-2 Advantage | 2/17/1976 | See Source »

Giles's mother's mouth comprised, from left to right, a tapering upper eyetooth which eroded a millimeter a year into the black pool of her gum socket, two long wedge-shaped frontals which overlapped like tightly crossed fingers...a lower incisor as yellow as sunshine off dusty grass, an...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: Parade of Horrors | 2/4/1976 | See Source »

The relationship between Ottoline and her husband is one of the few that Darroch, Ottoline's biographer, leaves unexplored. We are told that Morrell tolerated all Ottoline's friends, although he never quite fit into the group. He must have been extremely broad-minded; there was rarely a period during...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: A Moth and Her Flames | 1/22/1976 | See Source »

Most of the rule changes have been made within the Democratic Party. They are part of the general movement, begun in 1964 and accelerated sharply in 1972, to assure women and minorities more delegate seats at the national convention. After those changes angered party leaders and George McGovern lost a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARIES: Can Anybody Solve the Puzzle? | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

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