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Then, as the owners move their dogs through following exercises, Mrs. Woodhouse zeroes in on her two-legged students. "Do you see how much quicker I am than you are?" she asks one ambling owner. "You'll have to speed up if you're going to have an interesting dog. Otherwise, they walk around like zombies." To another owner: "You're the naughty one; your dog's really very good." To a third: "It's no good saying, 'Sit, darling, for Mommy's sake.' It's: 'Mazie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Putting on the Dogs | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

...HAVE OFTEN wondered why United States negotiators did not take quicker advantage of Hanoi's flexibility on organizing elections. I have concluded that the barriers to a negotiated settlement were not so clearcut as you or Ambassador Lodge appear to assume in your recent remarks...

Author: By Jim Blum, | Title: An Appeal for Amnesty | 2/7/1973 | See Source »

...setting bone fractures; of a heart attack; in Glücksburg, West Germany. Küntscher's innovation was to drill a hole lengthwise into each section of a broken bone, then insert a metal pin to join the break. The stability of the pin led to quicker recovery, and after winning adherents during World War II, the technique has been widely adopted by orthopedic surgeons, particularly for athletes, who break bones often and whose speedy recovery may be vital to a team's success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 1, 1973 | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

Certainly, SCLC came quicker and brought more than any other major civil rights group. The fact that Angela Davis is a Communist did much to slacken the response of the NAACP and the Urban League. Both organizations receive government funds, and it wouldn't look good to the boys back at the Bureau of the Budget to see a sizeable contribution to Angela's defense fund in their annual audit. So, with their financial deficits of half-a-million dollars each that future government grants could do a lot to cure, the Urban League and the NAACP were forced...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Angela and SCLC: 'Gutsy and we'll survie.' (Part II) | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

...Pickering incident calls into question the effectiveness of the joint emergency procedures used by the Harvard police and UHS. Some witnesses claim that quicker medical attention would have averted Pickering's death...

Author: By Steven Luxenberg, | Title: Harvard's No Crisis Handler | 11/18/1972 | See Source »

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