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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both the Gerrys are traditionalists of the country's oldest spectator sport. Bill objects to the influx into the sport of people who approach it primarily as a business. "It can be a very personal thing. When you treat it as a business there is no heart...

Author: By Christopher B. Wright, | Title: Forego: Making Them Forget About Secretariat | 4/13/1976 | See Source »

...more apt title for your cover picture would have been "Current American Vulgarity." I feel the way I would if one of my oldest friends suddenly and leeringly exposed himself at a party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Apr. 12, 1976 | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

...presidencies of ladies auxiliaries, retirement. The metamorphosis from rebellious young woman, clamoring for education, to the more familiar image of Jewish grandmother, gloating over snapshots of her grandchildren, seems complete. But no, not quite-many of these women, free at last, go back to school. Anuta Sharrow was the oldest student at Chicago Musical College; Ida Richter began to write novels; Katya Govsky earned a certificate to teach adult education. For some, it seems to be too late. "I was always happy," concludes Mollie Linker. "But if I would have had an education, with my mind, if I had taken...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: Sophie Portnoy's Complaint | 4/8/1976 | See Source »

Elizabeth Rowe, a former head of the National Capital Planning Commission, the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, Washington's oldest planning group, and the Potomac chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, have joined Schenk's cause...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Critics Hit Dumbarton Oaks Expansion | 4/6/1976 | See Source »

...painting that hinted of the early Rembrandt. Defoer spent the next two years in research trying to verify his discovery. This week he jubilantly announced his museum's acquisition of Rembrandt's Doop van de Kamerling (The Baptism of the Moor), the artist's second oldest known work. Painted in 1626 when Rembrandt was only 19, the 25-in. by 19-in. discovery depicts the baptism of an Ethiopian courtier by Deacon Philip, as recounted in Acts 8. Defoer, 39, declined to name the painting's last owner or the purchase price. But he made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 5, 1976 | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

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