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But if I want clues to how I functioned with all this stuff, I can always turn to my high school yearbooks, neatly stacked on one of my shelves. I went to a large and intellectually shoddy public high school, but somehow we always had a pretty good yearbook. Mine...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Bad Things To Do Three Thirty Five | 5/21/1971 | See Source »

Hanham described the papers as "somewhere in the C or B range; Someone used British high school historytextbooks, consciously trying hard not to do too good work. To be truthful, it sounded like extracts from books that sit side by side on the shelves in Widener Library," he said.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Students Disciplined For Buying Termpapers | 5/19/1971 | See Source »

When a New York chemistry professor announced that he had found mercury in canned tuna last December, the Food and Drug Administration began removing thousands of cans from grocery shelves for testing. Most of the tuna was subsequently pronounced safe for human consumption. Not so for swordfish. Last week FDA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Week's Watch | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

Six weeks ago, unknown radicals apparently decided to protest the suspension of a Maoist library worker sympathetic to suspended Professor H. Bruce Franklin (TIME, March 15). They sabotaged the library by removing or damaging 11,000 catalogue cards, pulling books from shelves and pouring honey on them. Since then, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tame Spring, Troubled Stanford | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

Dave "learned how to underline books on the swaying subway, a feat of muscular discipline which involved bracing your legs against the floor, pushing hard against the seatback and tucking your elbows in close to your body. The underlining was a little wobbly, but it traced the wavering path of...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Fathers and Sons Children of the American Dream | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

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