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...used to think that Nixon treated the press very badly, but after reading the article on what the press thinks of Ford, after his decent treatment of them [Dec. 2], they deserved all the rotten treatment they got and then some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 16, 1974 | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...doings down South. For one thing, quite a few women in the small town of Ellen ton, Ala., are susceptible to rape. When the Ellenton citizens are not raping, they are running straight through the whole bloody catalogue of violence-punch-outs, castrations and murders. Ellenton is so thoroughly rotten that not even the Jaycees come out of hiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: God's Littered Acre | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...nothing but his love and sympathy, and he won't give it me; and all my pride is trampled in the mud; I am nothing but a miserable crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness and a big belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which no one wants and which nearly drives me insane...

Author: By Laurel Siebert, | Title: To Love And To Work | 11/15/1974 | See Source »

...easily through working husbands. Then there are those patronizing or oversolicitous friends. "You always have to look 'on,' at the office," says Jane Bingham, 36, a Manhattan journalist who had a mastectomy in 1971. "I couldn't have a hangover or a cold or just feel rotten without people starting to buzz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Breast Cancer: Fear and Facts | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...Peace Bridge ran over into Canada. A half mile in the other direction was Buffalo's sewage treatment plant and city dump, Squaw Island. We used to have to run laps around the giant sewage treatment tanks, and sometimes we'd even run through the dump. The air was rotten on the leeward side of the island, but on the river side, the winds off the water would clear the stink out of our nostrils. In the spring, we'd pray that the ice would break up so we wouldn't have to run those ten-mile races through...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Unruly Comments | 11/1/1974 | See Source »

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