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...those too-sweet 'toons. Dec. 19th at 8 p.m. on CBS is Dr. Seuss's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," with the late Boris Karloff narrating; ABC, at 7 p.m. on the 16th features "Rudolph's Shiny New Year," and at 8 p.m. the next night, the always cool Pink Panther in "A Pink Christmas." NBC, not to be outdone, offers my personal favorite, Casper The Friendly Ghost, starring in "Casper's First Christmas," the 18th...

Author: By Jeff Toobin, | Title: How Television Steals Christmas | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Green is such a calming color that many school walls are painted "educational green" to reduce the restlessness of students. Now educational green may have to yield to an even more soothing tint: "jailhouse pink." According to Alexander Schauss, director of biosocial research at City College in Tacoma, Wash., the sight of the color pink changes the secretion of hormones, thus reducing aggressiveness. A jail commander in San Jose, Calif., who has tested the theory says it works-for a while. Lieut. Paul Becker found that prisoners were less hostile for the first 15 minutes in a cell that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Pink Clink | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

They come in pink, yellow, white and blue, and they're 18 inches long. And for a week now, the ballots are all that have mattered in Cambridge politics...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Counting Change in Cambridge | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

...First Lady for eight years, she scarcely changed her lifestyle. She still delighted in pink ruffles, wore her trademark bangs, smiled continually and said little. She received thousands of letters imploring her to cut her bangs or to speak out on some issue. But she never did. "I think Ike speaks well enough for both of us," she explained. Ike, in turn, described Mamie as "my invaluable, indispensable but publicly inarticulate lifelong partner." In later years, Mamie responded to women's liberation by saying: "I never knew what a woman would want to be liberated from." A lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Quiet First Lady | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...going to go at this every way we know." one demonstrator said late in the day, the pink summons marking his arrest pinned to his chest with a button commanding, "Question Authority...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: New York Takes Stock Of Anti-Nuclear Protest | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

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