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Gary Harkness narrates the story; he's a ringer, a piece of valuable material who, for one mild-mannered act of discontent or another, hasn't made it through the season at his four previous almac matres. Logos College (a small liberal arts and football school in the dusty wastes...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: "It's Only A Game, But It's the Only Game" | 6/14/1972 | See Source »

GREGORY PECK is a mild-mannered Hollywood liberal. He defends culpable friends in private, and perhaps the causes that incriminate them. He lends lip service and sometimes money to social crusades even in public. But he rarely instigates an action that would make a difference to anyone outside of the...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: The Catonsville Bomb | 6/13/1972 | See Source »

One brunette beauty who talks tough to cops and gets away with it is Empress Farah of Iran. Her country's police are "ill-mannered and inconsiderate," she told them to their collective face in a speech at the police academy. "They show unnecessary favor to royal motorcades and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 8, 1972 | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

Viennese adults, proud of their culture and heritage, are seemingly oblivious to their uncivilized behavior in automobiles. Not so their children. Asked by Vienna's mass-circulation Kurier to submit letters describing the driving habits of their fathers, several hundred schoolchildren, aged 9 to 14, handed down a nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Daddy the Rowdy | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

AGGRESSIVE FAST-TALKING would-be seductress Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand) sets out to steal absent-minded, mild-mannered musicologist Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal) from hysterical rotund fiancee Eunice Burns (Madeleine Kahn). Bannister is in San Francisco in hopes of winning a $20,000 grant to study the role of...

Author: By Michael Levenson, | Title: The Last Screwball Comedy Show | 4/26/1972 | See Source »

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