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Marion said that there is a big difference between this year's title-contending team and last year's talent-laden squad that finished last in the Ivies. "This year we have no prima donnas," Marion said...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Fencers Crush Quakers, Clinch Share of Ivy Title | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

Theoretically, extradition is a straightforward business. The U.S. has bilateral treaties on the subject with 81 nations; in general, they hold that when one country provides prima-facie evidence that the wanted man committed a crime, the other country will hand him over. Bahamian Magistrate Emmanuel Osadebay decided that the U.S. had not made a prima-facie case against Vesco before him. While the principle seems simple, Vesco's situation is only one more example of the maddening difficulties, tricky technicalities and extra-legal power plays that characterize some of the 45 or so extradition requests that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Extradition: Tricks And Power Plays | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

That is a prima-facie assumption unless proven to the contrary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Maniacal Zest | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

However, Marion believes that because of the team's inexperience they will try to put much more into their effort. He said that nobody is a "prima donna" on this year's team, and that all the fencers are very team conscious...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Fencers to Face SMU Squad; Inexperience Is Key Problem | 12/1/1973 | See Source »

...popping out from among the commercials for cars and permanent eyelashes-Boston Pops Conductor Arthur Fiedler, promoting a mail-order five-LP collection called A Library of the Greatest Musical Masterpieces. A twist of the dial and perched on a ledge overlooking Tuscan bell towers is Louis Prima delivering a husky-voiced hustle for a two-LP anthology of pop songs titled Love Italian Style. And isn't that-yes! It's Chubby Checker, coyly reminding viewers that he "used to do a little thing called the twist." Now Chubby is doing a little thing called hawking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mail-a-Disc | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

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