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...Miller, grey haired and compact, has been silent until now, but we both start to trade good-natured complaints about how long the trip is. Now she pulls up her bra straps and twists a little in her seat. "I'm going to get my Ma in Detroit. We'll be flying back to Chicago tomorrow. When your rear goes to sleep you know you've been driving pretty long. When we get to Detroit, first thing I'm gonna do is get a six pack, take it over to my Ma's and drink it all myself...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Riding to Ann Arbor | 1/16/1973 | See Source »

...Harvard people there are quite a few little inside jokes that relieve the general dreariness, or disgust. Lampoon editors have their pictures scattered all over the place, and anyone so inclined can waste a lot of time trying to find them. N-rm-n Ma-ler has written an account of a party at Harvard that sounds something like the one that the Advocate threw last Spring for Mailer in the Lampoon building. The appearance of John Marquand. Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Dudley House in a photo feature "Workaday Whirl" may give some people pleasure. And when the face...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: The Original Is Funnier | 10/26/1972 | See Source »

...bodies were borne off for individual services, 4,000 students demonstrated in Jerusalem's Independence Park. Ma'ariv, Israel's biggest newspaper, said: "We must cut off the arm of terrorism before it is raised to strike us again." Although Rosh Hashana is the nation's heaviest shopping season, stores were generally deserted. The customary greeting of "Shana Tova" (Happy New Year) was passed with ironic emphasis on the "happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: Horror and Death at the Olympics | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

AUPRÈS DE MA BLONDE by NICOLAS FREELING 228 pages. Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Once More with Freeling | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

...Each month he goes down to headquarters to sign the pay book; he gives the officer his entire salary plus a cut of the wage he makes at his regular job. The thousands of soldiers who do nothing more than sign pay books have become known as the "Linh Ma"-the phantom troops. Once a man has been drafted into the army, the name of the game becomes desertion. An estimated one-third of all the men in fighting units have deserted or gone AWOL at some time, and even North Viet Nam's tightly disciplined army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The Artful Dodgers | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

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