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...mass rallies to find out what was going on, straining to hear professors over the noise of the amplified strike pleas echoing through the campus, and being called obscene names by hippies when I tried to buy a sandwich at the cafeteria, I decided that this would be a nicer place to get an education if Mario Savio would stop bugging us. Has anybody thought of drafting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 23, 1966 | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

Weiland admits that it would be nicer to break in his new team a little more slowly, and agrees that Harvard would be better equipped to tackle the big boys later in the season. "But it will provide a good indication of what kind of team we have right away," muses the Crimson mentor, fearing...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Hockey Team Opens Season Against Bowdoin | 11/30/1966 | See Source »

Meanwhile, she has nicer things to think about. Long recognized as one of the world's leading contraltos, Forrester, 36, earns $100,000 a year singing classical songs at $2,500 a performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Something to Go Home To | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

...Damsel In Distress-Alone In the Cold Cruel World with only her Lofty Principles to guide her. She is beautiful and dutiful, weeps for 30 pages at a stretch, faints wherever the carpeting permits, seeks refuge from the "vices of the world" in the "beauties of nature and the nicer emotions of the mind." She sketches, plays the lute, offers helpful hints to harried humans ("Though splendour may grace happiness, virtue only can bestow it"), and produces Poetry with alarming regularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Extricating Emily | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

Nixon has mellowed and he's become a more congenial public figure, a nicer guy, than he was five years ago. But this time when the "new Nixon" presents himself, the people just might fail to see the change. They can't all spend 20 quiet minutes with him, like the law students...

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: Richard M. Nixon | 10/20/1965 | See Source »

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