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...getting off for. At the market vendors offer fruit and vegetables from open wooden carts on the street, which is always covered with at least a day's layer of garbage. Good deals are available there, but watch out for the hucksters who will slip you a bag of rotten peaches from behind their stands in place of the perfect peaches enticing you out front. It is wise to go in the evening, when the sellers want to go home and will therefore sell whatever they have left for small change. Acorss the highway from Haymarket is the Italian North...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

Since 1969, Martin has managed at Minnesota, Detroit and Texas. He has had winning seasons everywhere and been fired everywhere. His approach is classic: Us Against the Rotten World. Us is the team and the coaches. The Rotten World includes other teams, the press and even the front office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BYPLAY: Encountering the Yankees | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...ratio placed on both the men and the women here. But she also had to admit the thought of all those excess men sounded awfully nice after four years in a small, rural high school. And Jeff's conversation made her even more optimistic. Sure the system was rotten but she felt pretty confident she-d be able to enjoy herself here...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Back to the bathroom mirror | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...Republican was in line to chair the upcoming National Governor's Conference. (Jimmy Carter used his spot as chairman of the Democratic Governor's conference in that year as a launching pad for his own campaign. But after McCall labelled an address by Spiro Agnew as "One rotten, bigoted little speech," his prospects for heading the conference grew dim. The Republicans blacked him out completely after he endorsed the Democratic candidate to succeed him as governor, a post which he could no longer hold under Oregon law, having completed his second term in office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Real McCall | 4/14/1977 | See Source »

...Championship U. Of course the athletes deserve all they can get for they officially get so very little in return for their tireless efforts, but where does it leave them if they don't learn anything and they don't make the pros. But we all know it's rotten and there's nothing we can do to change it, right? The championship tourney will be great and we'll have the tube on and a beer in hand and go Marquette...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: First Adam, Then Eve | 3/25/1977 | See Source »

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