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None of them, except Clemente, would probably rate in a Boston all-star memory list. But in Pittsburgh, these names have become enthroned. Relief pitcher Face and reserve catcher smith, probably more distinguished as rotten singers than great players, made a record entitled "Two Bucs at the Holiday House," and seventh-grade girls throughout Western Pennsylvania begged their fathers for a chance to listen to those two crackling voices...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: A Touch of Garlic | 10/19/1971 | See Source »

...Conspiracy Eight defendants, but if you've been around the courts as long as I have, you know what the Bobby Scales and Abbie Hoffmans were ranting about. You'd have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to see that our judicial system in America is rotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blue Thunder | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

GOLF--The gold team was rotten last year. There's no denying it. It won the small matches, but when it needed a top showing to win, it usually played its worst. The team never approached its 11-3 record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Solid Year for Harvard Sports | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

Demolition. During the election campaign, his posters were torn down and his workers harassed. Duc himself has been pelted with stones and rotten eggs. In this campaign's most flagrant incident, an opposing government candidate spat a mouthful of beer over him in a restaurant. When Duc responded with a punch in the nose, he was jailed on a charge of attempted murder and released only on the demand of a majority of the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Trials of Ngo Cong Duc | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

...reason for the great turnabout is a dawning realization that women who have money to spend want clothes that are comfortable and smart. Says Stan Herman, designer for Mr. Mort: "Business was so rotten last year that we began to look around for the answer -and the answer was to give the lady out in Middle America what she wants. It's a salable look." Manhattan Designer Bill Blass is even more emphatic. "I have just returned from Minneapolis," he reports, "a city I consider a good barometer of the mood of the country, and I found women hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Minneapolis Look | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

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