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...easy sledding for Harvard however. The Catamounts will be psyched for an upset, and Gutterson Rink ranks right up there with Dartmouth's Davis Rink as "snake pits" for the visiting teams...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Six Face Off Against Vermont | 2/7/1973 | See Source »

...choose such a partisan nutritionist as Dr. Winick to cover the International Health Fair [Oct. 23]. Though he renders a service in exposing the faddism and snake-oil huckstering in the movement, he overlooks what will be its lasting effect: turning Americans away from the plastic "long shelf life" foods of the supermarkets back to the plain, flavorsome-and more healthful-foods of the real world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1972 | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

Slithering up walls is clearly not Snavely's forte, and although he passionately hates slinky reptiles, he answers to the monicker "Snake." Steve picked up the nickname in high school from the cartoon strip "Snake Snavely," and it's been his ever since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Steve Snavely: In the Center of Things | 11/9/1972 | See Source »

...area, told him the poor were "too lazy to work." "Keep them happy," Floyd added. "We'll need them on election day." As a result, Perry at first moved cautiously. Even so, his meetings with the poor to work out a program quickly ran into resistance. A snake-handling fundamentalist preacher turned up to rail against the project as the work of either Communists or the devil. Community toughs ambushed one organizer in an abandoned railroad tunnel along Twelve-Pole Creek. Perry began to get death threats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor V. Politician | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

...also re-elect an armadillo by convincing people that it is less dangerous to have around than a sidewinding snake. And this is just what the Nixon campaign merchandisers have tried to do this year. A Republican background paper outlining tactics in New York promotes Nixon's most boring qualities--his "purposeful, sensible national leadership." Boring Nixon is then contrasted with the pimply weirdos of what the backgrounder describes as the "McGovern Crowd," who sound like a gang of ultraviolence freaks out of A Clockwork Orange. The backgrounder notes that it was the "McGovern Crowd" who "humiliated the party leaders...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: How to Re-Elect an Armadillo | 11/3/1972 | See Source »

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