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Some Jaycees worry that the organization's stand could cost it much of the financial support it has traditionally had from businesses. But unless the Jaycees' executive board overrules him, Pig Man Kennedy promises, chapters that keep their women will lose their charters. Says he: "Bylaws are bylaws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oust Women? | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...these trips, smiling often and enjoying particularly the unconventional displays of piety that greeted him in the Third World. In Western Samoa in 1970, he stood before an outdoor altar in the blazing sun while eight sarong-draped men came forward, bearing on their shoulders an immense 400-Ib. pig, a traditional Samoan gift. In Uganda he was delighted by a platoon of blue-haltered, red-skirted dancing girls who met the papal jet in Kampala. More somberly, especially in his Third World visits, Paul made a point of seeking out the poorest neighborhoods. In India in 1964, he wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Lonely Apostle Named Paul | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...Dracula is the definitive male chauvinist pig. He wants to possess," says George Hamilton, who plays the sanguineous count in the movie Love at First Bite. In this comic version of Bram Stoker's 1897 play, Dracula turns up in Manhattan, where he gets mugged on the street, assaulted by an admiring female on the subway and caught in a brownout. Enough, one might say, to make a count go batty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 17, 1978 | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...story in a quarter-century, Crispin re-establishes his own flair for turning the unlikely into the inevitable. A grisly succession of murders, decapitations and other severances in a Devon village involves the rector, a retired major, a composer, a not-too-plodding constable, two detectives, two nymphomaniacs, sundry pig farmers, most of Fleet Street, a blackmailer, a local ancient -and Gervase Fen, an urbane Oxford don and literary critic who, as in previous Crispin novels, discreetly provides the ratiocination that puts all the bods and motives together again. Crispin, 57, may be forgiven for his long vacation from mayhem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Best off British Crime | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...Gimme Some Good Times" is a bright, youthful rock piece that cranks along into "Dirt," a rambling, thumping twangy ode of anger to one "pig of a person--cheap uptown dirt"; cries from a relationship run amok...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Up From the Streets | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

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