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...Rub Out. Last fall, Chin testified in a case involving a Stratford, Conn., policeman named Joseph Berke, who was convicted of having bugged the town hall, ostensibly to aid himself in the state examination for promotion. The bugs were discovered by electricians, and at the trial Chin testified that he had sold the cop a listening device-key testimony that helped convict Berke. Investigators theorize that Chin may have been rubbed out by someone else who had been using his equipment illegally and, hearing about the Berke case, decided that the bug maker had become too talkative for comfort. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Death of a Wireman | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...Prophet would be taken over by a conglomerateur and be come an apologist for multinational capitalism; that this development would cause another ratings crisis and that his network employers, unable to fire him because they too are owned by the conglomerate biggy, would arrange for their revolutionaries to rub the Prophet out in mid-diatribe, thus mercifully bringing him and the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Upper Depths | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...often demeaning. At Michigan State University hazing was banned by 1950, but it remains an integral part of initiation rites at several fraternities. Senior Steve Ryckman lost interest in joining the Delta Sigma Phi house last year after he developed a burn on his nose from being forced to rub it along a carpet. "They wanted to see how much they could humiliate you," he recalls. "It was degrading." On the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois, nearly two-thirds of the 54 fraternity chapters still haze. The more extreme initiation rites range from paddling and "chugalug" contests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Death of a Fraternity Pledge | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...beau masculin cherche GWM qui parle francais tu es masculin beau 20-30 sexe musique films sports. Respond to "Crime", box 11. YWMinterested in others into mutual massage--let's rub each other--also interested in dominant (sic) female. Respond to "Crime" box 11. BYP who likes to dance on raisin bread seeks companionship with farm animals. Respond to "Crime...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: ROCK | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

...Geneva, Richard frankly admits he hopes it will help him get back into the House of Commons. "If it goes well, obviously, some of the glitter is going to rub off," he says. "If it goes badly, presumably a fair amount of odium will rub off. That's just a fact of life." To the extent that his future depends on his success at the Rhodesian conference, what is good for Ivor Richard may very well be good for Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Ivor Richard: Man in the Middle | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

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