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...Rookie-of-the-Year honors. He did just that. Last year he knocked in 90 runs, hit .293 and was named the league's All-Star catcher. After a slow start, Bench so far this season has hit five home runs to help the Reds to a runaway lead in the National League's Western Division, with a 16-6 record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Little General | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

Hickel, who has indefinitely suspended all offshore lease sales, is particularly incensed because, he claims, Chevron "willfully and knowingly" violated the various requirements. Chevron's alleged negligence is as perplexing as it is illegal: the storm chokes, which could have shut off the runaway oil, cost only $800 per well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Hickel v. Oil Polluters | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...wage controls as a possible way to stop inflation without paying too high a price in unemployment. Nixon has slapped them down hard, but he seems to be getting nervous about sticking with the professors. The professors may well be correct in thinking that their course will stop runaway inflation without plunging the U.S. into a deep recession. If they are wrong, however, the political damage to the Republican Party and the economic damage to the nation could be extreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Nixon's New Worries About Recession | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

...exactly blow the Indians into the surrounding Hanover hills. A ten-minute span of sloppy play reminiscent of its performance against Princeton and North-eastern took the sharp edge off the Crimson's game midway though the second ??, and kept a game that should have been a runaway quite a bit closer...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Icemen Crush Indians, 8-1, As Senior Line Scores Six | 2/17/1970 | See Source »

PETER, the youngest Fonda, denies it. Henry and Jane, older and wiser, know that talent, like blood type, is decided before birth; that the plainsman, the rebel and the runaway are all branches on the same family tree. It is more than the physical resemblance that unites them?the El Greco shanks, the narrow faces with too much jaw, and the pale, inquiring eyes of hunted animals. There is also a common quality of purpose, a mutual undertow of melancholy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Flying Fondas and How They Grew | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

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