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CANTAB CAPERS.... There are rumors flying around the LAB that Cooncy Weiland and Bill Brooks will be made assistant directors of phys ed to help John Yovicsin... Rod Foster has indicated that he is going out for cross country next fall instead of football. He wants to be in top shape for the hoop season we hear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ben Beach Hail to Spring | 4/1/1971 | See Source »

...lower-court judge for having "murdered the king's, queen's and everybody else's English by using the monstrous linguistic abomination and/or." Pondering conflicting testimony in a manslaughter case, Ervin suggested that truth often comes to the biased witness as "the image of a rod to the beholder through the water-bent and distorted." North Carolina lawyers still quote Ervin's opinions because, says one, "it gives a brief more status and authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Conservative Libertarian | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...Personally. I like the relaxation of a hotel room," football quarterback Rod Foster said yesterday. "Staying in a hotel helps us get up for a game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Department Trims Costs of Traveling Teams | 3/3/1971 | See Source »

...writes in a recent issue of Izvestia, the speedometer stopped working when he headed home to pick up his family. Next the engine went thud-thud: a connecting rod had broken and the car had to be towed back to its garage. The tow-truck driver told Parchamovsky to keep his foot on the brake to maintain a safe distance between truck and car. But when the Moskvich's brakes began to smoke, Parchamovsky took his foot off the pedal. At that instant, the truck braked abruptly to avoid a pedestrian. Result: one crumpled Moskvich right fender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: They Don't Try Harder | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...financial or otherwise, of my father-and the long struggle began to put me through the Academy of Advanced Accounting. Most of the burden was borne by Myrna, who spent twelve hours a day teaching karate at the downtown Jack LaLanne's. Our only recreation was listening to Rod McKuen on Sunday, and except for a few old posters of Mao and Marcuse, a signed photo of Kate Millett and a ritual five-minute recitation at midnight from the Little Red Book, she had given up radical politics altogether. I suspect that she would not have survived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: SOB STORY, OR, A BESTSELLER BESTED | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

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