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...took it upon ourselves over and above our duty to provide that service to the community," Edelin said. "It was not a pleasant thing to do. We had to do them late in the afternoon or on Saturday mornings on our own time, with a skeletion crew in the operating room...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Edelin Anticipated Indictment After Grand Jury Appearance | 1/7/1975 | See Source »

Pets, notably dogs, cats and some birds, can, if treated sensibly, be pleasant, undemanding, entertaining consorts. During wars, insurrections and depressions, particularly, pet ownership seems to proliferate. Aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution claimed in some cases that they had lived because their dogs had repelled or mollified would-be assassins. Even in today's recession-inflation battered economy, when the care and feeding of pets would seem an exorbitant load on the family budget, there are more and more pet owners in the U.S.-deriving, perhaps, psychological sustenance from what Kipling called the dog's "love unflinching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great American Animal Farm | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

...emphasis on scholastics. "Some students boast at graduation they never opened a book," explains Headmaster William Reid. "These youngsters are interested in sports or friends they make here, enjoying community life and spending nights on the corner. High school for many of them is looked on as the most pleasant experience of their life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Southie Boils Over | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

...tough economic program shaped by the party's leaders in Congress to counter that offered by President Ford, 2) endorsed, not without challenge, the first formal constitution to govern their affairs and the first ever to be adopted by either major party and 3) did a powerful and pleasant lot of offstage politicking looking to 1976, as a pride of Democratic hopefuls moved around constantly, trying to win friends and influence delegates. The tone was set by the party captains, led by Chairman Robert Strauss, the chief architect of the convention and engineer of compromise (see box next page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Kansas City: Staging Platform for 1976 | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...Hill 2 T-bars 900 67 Eaton Mountain Skowhegan Chair 520 68 Enchanted Mountain Jackman Chair, T-bar 1,200 69 Evergreen Valley Lovell 3 chairs 1,050 70 Lost Valley Auburn 2 chairs, T-bar 240 71 Mount Abram Locke Mills Chair, 3 T-bars 1,030 72 Pleasant Mountain Bridgton 3 chairs, 3 T-bars 1,200 73 Saddleback Rangeley 2 chairs, T-bar, J-bar 1,900 74 Squaw Mountain Greenville Chair, 2 T-bars 1,750 75 Sugarloaf Kingfield Gondola, 3 chairs, 6 T-bars 2,637 76 Sunday River Bethel Chair, 3 T-bars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where to Ski In New England | 12/14/1974 | See Source »

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