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...worked almost every day of the past two years for people whom he'd never seen and never really knew. He helped lead the Boston area boycott of Farah so that clothing workers in Texas would be able to have a union, and not merely accept what Mister Farah wanted to give them; he picketed in the rain for the Harvard printers' union last spring, trying to remind the university that human beings create and run institutions, and not the other way around. Nick wrote leaflets about the miners' working conditions and pay, and passed them out in front...

Author: By James I. Kaplan, | Title: Nicholas Minard 1954-1975 | 1/24/1975 | See Source »

Their choice? What else but Mister Wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Final Act of a Family Epic | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...Kate pretty well directed themselves. More than once, Wayne stormed at Millar for overshooting scenes. "Goddammit," Duke boomed, "we can say these lines just so many times before they stop making sense." When the flustered director tried to proceed, there was a momentary lull and confusion. "Hey," Wayne shouted, "Mister Director, you're supposed to say 'action,' aren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Duke and Sister Kate Too | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...three passersby looked on indifferently. The woman shouted, writing on the ground....I was beside myself....'Can't four men handle a woman,'I said, 'must they beat her?' I was impressed with the apathy of the spectators. They were ordinary people. 'Don't get angry, Mister,' someone said, 'she's a whore'....The woman was obviously now going through a fit of hysterics. As they were taking her to the police station...she would sit down on the ground every five steps, scream and lift up her clothes, revealing her nakedness, to show the bruises. 'I'm a prostitute...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Climbing on Words | 9/26/1974 | See Source »

...late Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn, used to marvel at "those rolling waves of sentiment" that would occasionally engulf the House, abruptly establishing a solid consensus. Last week even Mister Sam might have been surprised at the swift surge of revulsion that swept both chambers of Congress. It came suddenly on Wednesday, eight days after the release of the presidential transcripts. The turn seemed to come with the gathering flow of mail running as much as 10-1 against the President, the opportunity for enough of the busy Congressmen finally to read through much of the transcripts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Congress: Black Wednesday | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

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