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...Another quiz? Well, why not? We've come a long way since the "Know-Your-President-Warts-and-All Quiz," and if we couldn't stop the war, at least we take partial credit for there being no Class Day speaker this year. What can this mean? Harvard teaches you to limit your goals...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg and Tom Lee, S | Title: The Oh, Mama, Can this Really Be the End? Quiz | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

...about people who have obeyed or disobeyed the tenets of Scout law. In an evening spectacular, a rock band made up of Explorers blasted nature's quiet; a disc jockey was brought in as master of ceremonies. A helicopter bombarded the Scouts with 15,000 fortune cookies containing quiz questions. Possibly the most shocking deviation from tradition was a Magic Forest Electronic Nature Trail event. The old nature walk was replaced by a marked course, along which cassette tape recorders emitted sounds of the wild. Said Campex-West's Michael: "It's about like Disneyland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Into the Real World | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

...reading period quiz is a little premature this term, but so was Joyce Maynard's autobiography. She's off in the New Hampshire woods, but as we, too, look backward, those happy times of Super-balls and X-15s seem gone beyond nostalgia--they're already history...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg and Tom Lee, S | Title: The Joyce-Maynard-is-21,-The-Sixties-Are-History Quiz | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

...editor in 1967. Short and slight, he still speaks with flat Yorkshire vowels and spends his few hours out of the Sunday Times office toiling almost obsessively at squash, skiing, Ping Pong and a book on photojournalism. He also serves as an occasional panelist on a television quiz show titled, aptly enough, Call My Bluff. Evans has long argued that British journalism should end its preoccupation with the elegant expression of opinion and tackle more American-style investigative reporting. "The growing power of government and corporations has led to a great invasion of personal privacy," Evans told TIME Correspondent Lawrence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wanted: A Bill of Rights | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...more expensive than the ordinary record; this is compensated for, though, by the availability of MP's subsequent two albums as $1.99 cut-outs. These are both classics and include the "Argument Clinic," "Budgies," "Spam," "The Undertaker," "The Travel Agent," "How Long is it?" and Karl Marx on a quiz show. Each contains at least one run of five or six superb pieces...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Of Budgies and Spain | 1/29/1975 | See Source »

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