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Adams makes his fable of survival a neat enough suspense story as his little band hippety-hops across the animal playing fields of England, bedeviled by crows, dogs, cats, automobiles and all the sundry elil (enemies) known to rabbits, not excluding other rabbits. The rabbit-you-love-to-hiss is a sort of lapine Erich von Stroheim named General Woundwort who runs a fascist-state warren. When the mateless hlessil bucks lure comely does from behind Woundwort's Iron Curtain, all bunny-hell breaks loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rabbit Redux | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

Harvard opened the scoring at 5:50 of the first period when Paul sent in MacMillian alone on a neat pass through the middle. The Yale goalie came out a bit to cut down the angle, but MacMillian deftly pulled the puck to his backhand and lifted it into the net over the sprawled Eli netminder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard J.V.'s Defeat Bulldogs, 8-1 | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...effort to account for this phenomenon, Ostriker worked out a neat mathematical explanation. He calculated that if the galaxies actually have ten times more mass than has been seen through the telescopes of earthbound observers, the velocities of the stars would satisfy Newton's laws. Ostriker theorizes that the mass exists in invisible halos of small, dim stars, interstellar dust and gases, and perhaps even "black holes" -cadavers of huge, ancient stars, so completely collapsed under their own powerful gravity that not even light can escape from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Missing Mass | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...look closer and the resemblance holds up. Short man with slicked back black hair brushed back on the sides and a neat sweep in front. A very tan face. Lines in his forehead, which is prominent. Very powerful beard, with a short-sleeved shirt that shows a tattoo on his forearm. His eyes, though small and beady, have a powerful gaze. And he smiles like he's got a secret...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: In Spudnick's | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...SUPERSTITION, Stevie Wonder. Number one in January. Neat chord changes, good use of moog...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Plums and Prunes | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

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