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...narrow doorways are displaying the flag of Ulster, a red cross on a white field, with a red hand upraised in the center. For many Protestants, the British army has become something foreign, and the hostility is mutual. Across barbed-wire peace lines, the soldiers are as likely to mutter about "Protestant bastards" as they do about "Fenian bastards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Reflections on Agony and Hope | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...staffers mutter about low salaries and heavy work loads but find brief reportorial stints stretching into lifelong careers at what they call "the tender trap." It has also been described as "40 freelance writers working under the same roof and (by Boston Globe Editor Tom Winship) as the best newspaper "of its size in the country." Such encomiums disturb the Yankee equanimity of Lawrence K. ("Pete") Miller, 65, owner, editor and publisher of the Berkshire (Mass.) Eagle, who attributes the paper's reputation for class to "accidents of inheritance, age, personality, location, and the like." Whatever the reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Eagle Tradition | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...voters in the 9th never found out just how Hicks represented them in Congress. The congresswoman rarely talked about the issues during the campaign, and her staff would mutter something about "performance counts" whenever reporters tried to pin down Hicks's platform...

Author: By Steven Luxenberg, | Title: From Old to New Politics in the 9th District | 11/15/1972 | See Source »

...does a Boston Brahmin take so well to being a ham?" a reporter inquired of Robert Grovesner Gardner. "Simple," he replied. "Some go ham. We go proscuito." As he skated off he was heard to mutter. "Ten pig wedding, five pig funeral, with five pounds of bacon cleared." Then this little proscuito went wee, wee, wee all the way home...

Author: By Tina Rathborns, | Title: Entr'acte | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

Roaring out of the start at a powerful 44 cadence, the Crimson jumped to a quick half-length lead before the startled Tigers could mutter "Ohmygoditshappeningagain!!" Then, having beaten Princeton at its own quick-start-let-em-have-it game, the Crimson whipped off a sizzling first 500 at an incredible 37 cadence to open up a convincing lead...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Lightweights Overwhelm Princeton by Two Lengths | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

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