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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blue netminding chores are usually handled by junior Tony Ciresi who sports a 3.33 goals-against average and a .907 save percentage in Ivy League play...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Harvard Six Faces Slumping Quakers | 2/14/1975 | See Source »

...introduces some new themes as well: the struggle for legitimacy (Michael opens himself up to five counts of perjury by denying charges rather than take the fifth); the intimate connection with "legitimate" business ("United Telephone and Telegraph"); and a sense of history. An aging Mafioso committing suicide to save his family from further intimidation reminds himself of the tradition of ancient Roman emperors, who allowed unsuccessful rebels to commit suicide to avoid confiscation of their family estates...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: The Revenger's Tragedy | 2/14/1975 | See Source »

LAST WEEK WAS a bad one for poor people and peace-loving people across the United States. President Ford wanted to increase the price of food stamps in an attempt to "save" the government $645 million. Ford's plan would have eliminated between two and three million people of the 8 per cent of Americans on food stamps. At 1975-76 fiscal years, issued last week, called for the largest rise in defense spending ever--up $8 billion over last year's budget to $92.8 billion--while cutting back on social programs such as Medical, Medicare, Social Security...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Between Guns And A Little Bread | 2/11/1975 | See Source »

...SAVE THE CHILD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boston Op | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

...Second floor front, one room with a desk file cabinet and two chairs in case Mrs. Onassis came in with her husband, mail slot and pile of mail." L.A. has long been the culture capital of suspense fiction. Boston may now be moving up. In Parker's God Save the Child, kidnapers instruct that the ransom be put in a green book bag - a touch as evocative of Boston as the swan boats in the Public Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boston Op | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

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