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...afternoon, the team works out together, performing drills and scrimmaging. "It is more contact than I'm used to," said Jiggetts. After dinner there is a team skull session, focusing on learning plays and strategy...

Author: By David Black, | Title: Jiggetts '76 Makes It As a Bear | 8/17/1976 | See Source »

...rats crawled out of their holes and died. One farmer saw his cat keel over, and when he went to pick up the body, the tail fell off. When authorities dug the cat up for examination two days later, said the farmer, all that was left was its skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Deadly Cloud | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

...crop of dissidents he left behind. The KGB has begun to use "Mafia methods," he said, citing the recent fatal mugging of Poet Konstantin Boga-tyryov, the Russian translator of Rainer Maria Rilke who had protested against Soviet civil rights violations. While the scholar was dying of a fractured skull in the hospital, Amalrik went on, KGB agents ordered the doctors to "fix him so he will come out an idiot," then threatened the physicians when they refused to comply with their order. Still, Amalrik expressed hope that he could continue to struggle against repression. "My leaving the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Tactical Retreat | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...bayonet drill in which 12-lb. poles padded on both ends are used as weapons), Bronson ordered other recruits to whale away at McClure, even after the 115-lb. youth fell to the ground screaming for mercy. He died in a hospital after doctors removed half of his crushed skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Corps on Trial | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...wares: "Miss Delilah, the girl who thrives on electricity and smiles when we push the switch on her very own electric chair," and "El Diablo, the king of fire, the human volcano," and "the human blockhead who loves to pound large sharp spikes and razor-tipped awls into his skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: The Circus: Escaping into the Past | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

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