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Midway through the first half prop Lee Sheehy took in a loose ball for the first score of the game. Ordway's conversion put the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unbeten Ruggers Edge Dartmouth | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

...Your article on Golden Gate leaps [Aug. 24] erroneously stated that New York City does not classify its suicides and that bridge jumpers are listed as "accidents." The reason for the existence of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner here is precisely to investigate and prop erly classify all unnatural deaths. This includes more than 1,200 suicides annually -sleeping-pill overdose is the most common means of suicide; next most common is jumping from buildings (more than 300 a year); third is hanging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 21, 1970 | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...foods that he and Barbra used to enjoy (particularly Chinese food and coffee ice cream). He constantly munches sunflower seeds. Director Dick Rush swears that he could track Gould on the set of Getting Straight by the trail of sunflower husks he would leave behind. At one point the prop man heard about a bargain in sunflower seeds and presented Gould with 1,000 bags that he had bought cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Elliott Gould: The Urban Don Quixote | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

...statute, the high state court ruled that flag desecration is legal in Pennsylvania if it "takes place at a political demonstration." The state legislature may not define "political" to exclude protest groups, the court suggested; as a result. Old Glory can be used as anyone's political prop in Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flag Desecration Is Legal | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

Over the centuries, there have been two kinds of theater, the elitist and the vulgarian. In Aristophanic comedies, male characters were endowed with huge prop phalli with which they thwacked each other. Early forms of the Kabuki theater were closed down by the shogun in 17th century Japan for encouraging prostitution and inciting lewd homosexual byplay on and off stage. Italy's commedia dell'arte was frequently obscene in word and gesture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pornocopia | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

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