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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irrational, insecure, maniacal, dangerous, our drunken friend, like a madman, and said he possessed a "second-rate mind." He also thought Nixon was antiSemitic. Kissinger, explains the book, "saw in the President an antagonistic, gut reaction which stereotyped Jews and convinced Nixon that they were his enemies." One sign of that attitude was Nixon's frequent protest, "The Jewish cabal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Further Notes on Nixon's Downfall | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...federal court to challenge it. When the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals turned them down two weeks ago, the owners intensified efforts to right the situation by negotiating with the players a new version of the general baseball contract that guides and supplements the individual contracts the players sign. For the first time abandoning the reserve clause's perpetuity principle, they had proposed that every player be bound to a club for "eight and one"-eight years plus one to play out his option. But Marvin Miller, 58, the shrewd, tough executive director of the players' association, countered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Loosening Up at Last | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...Massachusetts House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the three-year extension of the existing statute earlier this month. Although the House has now approved the idea of keeping rent control at the state level until 1979, the revived law must still be passed by the state Senate and then signed by Governor Michael S. Dukakis before it can take effect. The governor has expressed his support for rent control, and says he will sign any extension of it that comes to his desk...

Author: By Henry Griggs, | Title: With the state's law dying in committee, weaker local controls may well be on the way | 3/24/1976 | See Source »

...laughing at Strawberries record shop on Boylston Street on January 9 at noon. She has come to promote her new album Horses and sign autographs. Strawberries is hip. Somebody at the store has made an altar of Black Ken dolls, melted wax, plastic horses, alligators, kangaroos. Dirt. Ashes. All images in her poems. The altar stands in an alcove lined with an arch of over 200 of her albums. Photographers drain the juice on their electronic strobes as people shyly wait with pens. One kid, who stole Patti's "Braves" jersey the other night has come to return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

After a half hour of taking pictures, one photographer can't resist buying Patti's record and getting her to sign it, even though he has no record player. "To Tim/Platinum nerves/" (plus a picture of an eye...) "p--tti smttth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

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