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...Manager Hollis McLoughlin has taken over the duty of leading calisthenics, and before big games he is instrumental in psyching out the opposition. After leading the players in a snake line around the outfield. McLoughlin puts them through a less than rigorous set of exercises that range from football reflex drills to flashing the peace sign...

Author: By Eric Pope, | Title: Thomas Thinks Confidence and Unity Will Help Batmen Return to Omaha | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

...area when folded shut-is somewhat larger than he had originally planned, and thus raises "the question of just which pocket it will fit." (Answer: the breast pocket of a man's suit, snugly.) A major innovation in the still-unnamed camera is the single-lens-reflex viewing system that allows a picture taker to see precisely the same image that eventually appears on film. Except for conventional focusing, the entire process is controlled automatically by a tiny system of integrated electronic circuits. For indoor pictures or where the light is poor, the camera uses a five-picture flash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Breast-Pocket Polaroid | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

...This is another strong tenet in the Anderson credo -one that unites him both philosophically and tactically with Ralph Nader, with whom he shares material and mutual admiration. They are both obsessed by the influence of private power and big money on public men and public policy. Almost by reflex, Anderson seems to smell danger in the contacts between Government officials and private industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Square Scourge of Washington | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...Every human being who is more than a moron is in the arena of certain violent tensions.... locked out of the animal paradise of unthinking natural reflex...born into one political contract or another...It's a kind of agony really--the agony vents itself in ulcers internally, rage externally...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike Redux | 3/22/1972 | See Source »

...have really been locked out of the animal paradise of unthinking natural reflex...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike Redux | 3/22/1972 | See Source »

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