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...than queuing for petrol with head bowed -the difference, metaphorically speaking, between being "bloody, but unbowed" and bloody and bowed. At a time when such a sickeningly large part of the Western world (the U.S. excluded, but my own country unfortunately included) is facing toward the East on its stomach, Holland is like a shining light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 7, 1974 | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

...awakened by his wife's screams. He set off the piercing burglar alarm atop their 17-room mansion in Kenilworth, a suburb of Chicago. When he entered the bedroom of his 21-year-old twin daughter Valerie, the girl lay agonizingly near death-her face, chest and stomach mutilated by stab wounds. In the seven years since the slaying, Illinois state police have interviewed more than 14,000 people, spent over $300,000, and painstakingly pursued 1,317 leads. Last week the search zeroed in on one of these, lead No. 273, and for the first time, investigators were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Percy Lead No. 273 | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...maybe it is from looking up at the huge stands, which could so easily be filled with hundreds of spectators. At any rate, some tiny muscles in our stomachs and necks and abdomens hear Mummy talking and obey: "Do hold your head up higher, dear, and pull in your stomach a little, that's a good girl...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: IAB, 12:30 p.m. | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...watched 13 girls enter the pool. Each one walked out into the light, glanced around her, pulled her stomach in and her head higher and walked toward the edge of the pool...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: IAB, 12:30 p.m. | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...Sometimes. I swim up on my stomach and back on my back and count the ribs in the ceiling. Do you swim every...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: IAB, 12:30 p.m. | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

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