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...contest are run through the city's streets, on the heels of all those brave (and crazy) enough to risk their necks for the honor of being able to boast of "running the bulls" at Pamplona. After the day's fights the cafes are jammed as raised wineskins squirt forth their hurtling jet of cheap vino. The bands in the central square launch into native tunes that set the pace for the whirling dance of tottering celebrants, strangers momentarily united in their stupored carefreeness. Jake joins in with the native Spaniards, and, aided by the wine and the contagious exhilaration...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: The Bell Tolls for Thee | 8/6/1974 | See Source »

...year-old, lightly mustachioed with peach fuzz, his neatly trimmed black hair slicked back. He dines on vegetables-liberally supplemented by mounds of Baskin-Robbins ice cream. He does not practice yoga or formal meditation (having surpassed, he says, the need for it), but he has a passion for squirt guns and triple Creature Features horror movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Junior Guru | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

...same period of 1971. Pinto benefited especially from the introduction early this year of a mini-station wagon that resembles Ford's successful full-sized Country Squire. One auto industry wit unsuccessfully suggested to Ford executives that the Pinto wagon be named the "Country Squirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Blue Denim Boom | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...backwoods of Canada, where his father is calmly, patiently instructing him on how to keep his little four-year-old ankles straight, shift the puck from side to side and let that slap shot go. Father Duke dies, but his creation lives on, and we watch him go from Squirt to Pee Wee to Midget to Bantam to the Junior Leagues, and finally, as Derek Sanderson looks on, to a triumphant performance at Toronto and the OHA championship...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Winter Comes Early | 3/23/1972 | See Source »

...aborning. Jerry White, 26, devised a plastic sheathing to protect telephone poles from woodpeckers but found it too expensive to produce. Other students are still gamely trying to develop a drown-proof infant bathtub, a self-testing kit for lung cancer and a transistorized gadget that would automatically squirt out air freshener every few minutes. But, as Bob Lyle, the 30-year-old acting dean, points out, even failure teaches students something about business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Bootstrap Teaching | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

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