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Number one seed Bill Kaplan saw his match strung out to five games before he dispatched Dartmouth's Scott McAllister. In the deciding point of the final game, Kaplan capped a torrid rally by caroming a singing corner shot by McAllister to put the wraps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Raquetmen Quash Big Green; Top Seven Seeds String Wins | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...Southern industrialists are feeling the crunch, the Northern ones don't seem to. Some gentleman, purportedly with a crewcut and perhaps even a VFW, has consecrated his entire property to the glory of God. At least 30 small trees, not to mention the big ones, are strung with lights; a large manger scene graces his front lawn; his garage lit up like a chapel; and his house is the temple itself, supporting the Star of Bethlehem, mechanical of course, proclaiming its message to the world. Most people, including L.S., label the display "garish" or even "obscene...

Author: By Anne Cherner, | Title: New Year's | 1/13/1976 | See Source »

...main square, whose principal commercial life revolves around ten seedy-looking pubs, is a British army post housing some 110 Royal Fusiliers. The compound is known locally as the Alamo, and for good reason: it is ringed by two-story-high corrugated steel walls, topped by concertina wire and strung over with camouflage netting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Armagh: 'This Is I.R. A. Territory' | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...years since Fay Wray was strung up in a delightfully sadistic way as bait for the huge ape, only to conquer his marshmallow heart. Universal will follow the original faithfully. Wray's part has not yet been cast, but Fay herself, now 68, will have a cameo role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Monkey Business | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

Removing the Barbs. Despite their 15-day ordeal, the hostages from the consulate were in surprisingly good health. None had to be hospitalized, and within hours all had returned to their families. By then, police had taken down the barbed wire that they had strung around the consulate-and that Amsterdammers had thoughtfully strung with Christmas decorations to make it look less forbidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISTS: Surrender in Amsterdam | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

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