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Logan's Run is a nitwit sci-fi saga about a Sandman named Logan (Michael York) who is dispatched by computer central to track down some runners who have managed to slip through security and strike out for a secret place known as "sanctuary." Logan is accompanied on his run by a comely young thing (Jenny Agutter) and sped on his way by the knowledge that computer central has mysteriously shortened his life span and has set the jewel in his palm blinking like a beacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Ran | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...full pay increase-with a compromise gesture delaying its enactment until Oct. 15. He did not inform the board of supervisors of his action until later that morning, Alioto told a news conference, because "I didn't want to disturb their beauty sleep," and he quietly hummed Mr. Sandman to the gathering .of reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: San Francisco Sandman | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...four defeated Nixon loyalists were from New Jersey: Charles Sandman Jr. and Joseph J. Maraziti. The gravel-voiced Sandman, whose raucous defense of Nixon had variously appalled or delighted millions of viewers, was beaten in his seaside district by William J. Hughes, a former assistant county prosecutor who had narrowly lost to Sandman four years ago. Although defeated this time, 108,486 to 76,962, Sandman said he had no regrets about his pro-Nixon stance. "If I had to do it over, I would do the same thing," he declared! Maraziti succumbed to the combination of Watergate, newspaper reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Price of Trusting Nixon | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

Representatives Charles W. Sandman Jr. (R.-N.J.), Joseph J. Maraziti (R.-N.J.), Wylie Mayne '38 (R.-Iowa) and David W. Dennis (R.-Ind.), all against impeachment, lost their seats in yesterday's election. Rep. Harold V. Froelich (R.-Wisc.), a "swing vote" in the Judiciary Committee hearings who finally voted for impeachment, also lost his seat...

Author: By Margaret A. Shapiro, | Title: Democrats Will Dominate Congress, Statehouses | 11/6/1974 | See Source »

...losses, which ran as high as 80 or 100, have been scaled back down to 20 or 30. Among those favored by Nixon's resignation are the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee who voted for impeachment-like Railsback of Illinois and Butler of Virginia. Nixon defenders like Sandman and Maraziti, both of New Jersey, who switched after Nixon's confessional tapes were released on Aug. 5, have similarly been protected from adverse conservative Republican fallout by the ex-President's resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Winners and Losers | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

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