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Looking for the edge, Cal State unveiled its "phantom infield," taking its pregame infield practice without the services of a baseball. Obviously shaken by this weirdism, the Trojans wilted, 6-5 and 7-6, and the Diablos were headed to Omaha...

Author: By Mike Kennedy, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: College World Series: Of Devils and Phantoms | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...from Hammond organ to Moog synthesizer, and Greg picking away at his bass-guitar. Between them sat Carl, confined along with his drums, snares, gongs and tubular bells in a percussion cockpit that resembled nothing so much as a mod four-poster converted into a padded cell for the phantom of the opera. The music built relentlessly, awesomely powered by 72,000 watts worth of amplification -enough to start a medium-sized radio station. The volume never reached the threshold of pain (130 decibels), but it was, in Salmon's words, "enough to peel an apple ten feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: ELP: 72,000 Watts in the Name | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...like the fiery Chicano stereotype that had taken out of the migrant's school outside of San Francisco and had put him in the gringo school outside of Beacon Hill. But gradually that year he understood it was that other stereotype, that Harvard-Fly-Club-air-of-casual-scholarship phantom that was going to take him even further in the gringo world as soon as he could climb out of the long black robe on Commencement. Hell, he figured, there's Ropes and Gray and Rose Guthrie and Alexander and ll those other big law firms, and anyone of them...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: 'Most determined case of suicide I've ever seen' | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...debate the ERA on the level of what it will or won't do without the personal attacks, the epithets, and the "phantom issues"? The kind of dress the ERA opponents wear is a total irrelevancy to the issue of whether or not we should change the U.S. Constitution to treat women exactly like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1977 | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...soldier starts at the bottom, breaking in as a senior thug's driver, bodyguard or shylock debt collector. He earns about $20,000 a year, in the form of cash from his boss, a salary from a phantom job in a Mob-infiltrated business or a share in the proceeds of a racket. If his superior approves, the new man can start some minor enterprise of his own?loan-sharking, bookmaking, labor racketeering. If he demonstrates a taste for violence, business acumen and organizational skill, he will rise rapidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE MAFIA Big, Bad and Booming | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

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