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...their own or that of someone close to them. As she wryly points out, Graham, 50, is herself on that "endangered list." An attractive, soft-spoken author and public relations counsel, she has lost both breasts to cancer, and this year learned that the disease had spread to her spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Time to Write | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

Connors scored both touchdowns in the Brown triumph, the first coming on a spine-tingling 85-yd. punt return. "I know it sounds corny," said Miller, "but I'll never forget that look of determination on Paul's face when he went out there because it was the first time he had gotten a chance to run back a punt...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Crimson Frosh Halfback Paul Connors Could Be Harvard's Hope for the Future | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

...start educating grass-roots America on the intricacies of the treaty. Further, the White House's handling of Congress was not as adroit as it might have been. Carter's aide Hamilton Jordan complained of the Senate: "Some of those bastards don't have the spine not to vote their mail. If you change their mail, you change their mind." Senator Clifford Case, a New Jersey Republican who is sympathetic toward the treaty, coldly replied that such a remark was not ''helpful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: That Troublesome Panama Canal Treaty | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...ceremony last month. A widely quoted wisecrack by Carter's aide Hamilton Jordan last week scarcely improved those bruised White House-Hill relations. Referring to the cascade of anti-treaty letters that Senators have been receiving, Jordan snickered that "some of those bastards don't have the spine not to vote their mail. If you change their mail, you change their mind." Said New Jersey Republican Clifford Case, a supporter of the pacts: "That was not helpful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Keeping the Canal Pacts Afloat | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...entire cast works with will and skill, and Patricia Elliott is particularly winning as a perky lady's maid with a tongue of salt and a spine of spunk. Ste phen Porter directs with stylish assurance, and equal praise accrues to Richard Wil bur, the translator-poet. His springy rhyming couplets carry scarcely a trace of melodic monotony and he turns Moliere's French into buoyantly idiomatic English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Snaky Spell | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

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