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After the team treated her to a full-dressed post-game shower, Kleinfelder could only reflect, "We need stiffer competition...

Author: By Erik J. Dahl, | Title: 'Cliffe Hoopsters Cut Jumbos to Size, 85-36 | 3/1/1977 | See Source »

...myth of super-human exertion. The more meetings, the more phone calls, the more crises, the longer the hours, the better it got. Lyndon Johnson, for instance, worked an early shift of eight hours, took a two-hour nap in the late afternoon, then stepped into a cold shower that pummeled him back to consciousness, after which he worked eight more hours. Richard Nixon by that measure was rather lazy, but he was so intimidated by his predecessor that his staff strove frantically to cover up the time he spent resting or brooding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: A White House Workaholic? | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...laps with seemingly endless energy. A euphoric basketball squad would rush onto the hardwood and mob each other with embraces when victorious, but when defeated the team would walk somberly to their locker room, grab a Coke and a pretzel, and hurry off to the solitude of a hot shower...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: All Quiet on the Philadelphia Front | 2/25/1977 | See Source »

Returning for a last night at the luxurious University City Holiday Inn, in the heart of Philadelphia's fast-food district, the Harvard women performed their last heroic task of the weekend, forcing fully clothed basketball captain, Katherine Fulton, into a sobering shower...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: All Quiet on the Philadelphia Front | 2/25/1977 | See Source »

...that county officials ordered a tough system of enforced rationing. Depending upon the number of residents in a home, each individual will be limited to between 32 and 49 gallons a day. That is roughly enough water to flush a toilet seven times or take a five-minute shower. The cost, moreover, will nearly triple, from 46? per 100 cu. ft. (748 gal.) to $1.22. Anyone who exceeds the ration will be billed a punishing $10 to $50 per cu. ft. for the excess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Marin County: The Bucket Brigade | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

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