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...struggles to please her self-centered husband Jonathan, to bring up her children, to run her party. Her surroundings conspire against her. The caterers move in and take over her party; the neighbors complain to her about the coat rack that her husband has left in the hall of their Central Park West apartment; Jonathan derides her in front of the children; and when she cooks a special stuffing for the Thanksgiving turkey (as Jonathan has demanded), one of the girls spits it out. Jonathan explodes...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Diary of a Mad Housewife gone, but will be back next month | 1/13/1971 | See Source »

...match was more even than the score indicates, the Tigers winning six bouts to the Crimson's four. Unfortunately for Harvard, many of Auburn's victories came on pins, which helped rack up more points for the Tigers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Takes Second Behind Auburn In Virginia Tech Quadrangular Meet | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...Santa. It had just been a game. That Christmas Eve I took my first sleeping pill. I didn't bother pecking out the window before getting in bed to see if the sleigh were flying through the air. And I just put the potholders on my mother's rack after I finished them. My childhood had been torn asunder...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The Santa Claus Myth-Why It Must Be Crushed | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

Nothing's really changed. The smell's the same, the guys still run stadiums after coming in half-dead from the river, and freshman coxswains still rack up about one shell a year. Anyone complaining about the rapid changes at Harvard can retire to Newell Boat House and find stability...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 12/4/1970 | See Source »

...always polished to a high gloss of sophistication. For example, Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel and his Alaska-born wife Ermalee gave a dinner for some of the stars who performed last week in the invitation-only gala at Ford's Theater. The piece de resistance was a rack of lamb, cooked by Wally Hickel himself on his indoor gas grill. When the grill developed a small but intractable fire, a discreet call was made to the fire department, asking for the help of just one fireman, who was to be smuggled quietly into the kitchen. Instead, seven fire engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martha Mitchell's View From The Top | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

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