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...PICKS up the pace with a barrage of catchy tunes and amusing lyrics, culminating in the traditional male chorus line. The audience, now thoroughly soused, responds with vigor, pounding, clapping, as the legs pump up and down on stage. Tired by the heat and drink, scattered industrialists sleep through the climax. The pageant comes to a close soon after, with a patriotic song extolling the virtues of materialism and the values of the Pudding: Lets all stay home Because in other lands People have to earn their pay. But in our motherland... Lets all be tots in tinseltown today...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Spotlight, Streetlight | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

Crimson captain Bill Carey came off the bench to pump in a game high 28 points as a fast-breaking attack careened the cagers to a convincing 92-83 win over Columbia Saturday night...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Cagers Wallop Columbia, 92-83, to String Ivy Wins | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...Concorde like we need skin cancer and further depletion of the world's oil reserves. Rejecting the Concorde would snub France, but so what? As for Britain, it might be the best thing we could do for it. Maybe we would force the British to face reality and pump money into more vital, potentially profit-making industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Feb. 9, 1976 | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

...reports. They called the fine "unreasonable" and the sales ban unjustified since only about 1,000 cars were involved. Mindful of A.M.C.'s precarious competitive position (the company lost $27.5 million in the last fiscal year), the state may reduce the fine by 75% and require A.M.C. to pump the money saved into its antipollution efforts. Even so, the remaining fine of around $1 million would be one of the highest on record in an auto-pollution case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Grasping for Clean Air | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

Summer brought more delusions. Sure I had a reporter's job in suburban Danvers. But there didn't seem much difference between that and the variety of other jobs I'd held summers earning money to pump into Mother Harvard's coffers...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: After Harvard, Danvers | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

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