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...factory drinking water (a throwback to a time years ago when ice was cut from polluted rivers). Last week OSHA's director, Assistant Secretary of Labor Morton Corn, said that some of the agency's hoariest regulations soon would be revised and businessmen would get a louder voice in changing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGENCIES: Putting Trivia Ahead of Safety | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

Caldwell raises her arms and begins to conduct. A hundred arms are set in rhythmic motion and music fills the hall. The roar grows louder as the chorus begins singing St. John's Passion. Rick snaps pictures rapidly. He switches to his long lens for closeups of Caldwell. From the balcony her facial features are indistinguishable--only the reflection of the chandelier lights in her glasses can be discerned as she bobs her head up and down in time to her deliberate hand motions...

Author: By Mary B. Ridge, | Title: The Eyes of the Beholder | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...computer room is just down the hall from the plate stacks, in fact. The instruments' hum, not completely muffled by the heavy metal-cased door, grows louder as you approach. Inside, the maze of complex machinery makes the room vibrate. Arny Epstein, one of the researchers working on the HEAO-A3 satellite experiment, tries to make the names charts and computers comprehensible. He runs through the basics of his work in a matter-of-fact tone. Then he grins: "Now I'll show you something." He sits down in front of a TV screen hooked up to a typewriter keyboard...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: 'I Heard The Learned Astronomer...' | 4/22/1976 | See Source »

...Brown's appeal, it is probably directed at a non-sixth grade audience. The little girl sitting next to me, who confessed at intermission that she uses a Snoopy toothbrush every night, didn't laugh once the whole time; her parents, sitting behind her, couldn't have guffawed any louder. So maybe you should see Charlie Brown, especially if you didn't get it the first time around, but how about doing the kids a favor and sending them to see The Beggar's Opera instead...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Sixth Grade Revisited | 4/17/1976 | See Source »

There are many men, like Ieukea, who speak a truth that is louder than words. Prince Mephisto, the middle Eastern Sheik foresook his kingdom to come to America to fulfill his life's burning ambition--to beat America's greatest matmen. The Prince uses extra-professional tactics which some whimpering idiots claim to be unethical. Before a match, for example, he sometimes goes into a trance and puts a spell on his hapless opponent. Other times he makes balls of fire emanate from his fingertips. He has been known to burn the eyes out of the sockets of his helpless...

Author: By Nick Eberstadt, | Title: Some Notes on Big-Time Wrestling | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

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