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...Encourage players to swallow salt tablets before practice. This promotes dehydration and increases thirst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Seven Ways to Kill a Football Player | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

...public exposure as Foreign Minister and his role as principal negotiator of the treaties granting the African territories their independence had made him his country's most popular figure. In his youth, he was attracted to Communism, but eventually rejected the party. Reason: he was unable to swallow the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The danger of such a dictatorship, in fact, was the message he preached during the election campaign. "The Socialist Party will never sacrifice freedom in the name of socialism," he vowed time and again. Apparently a majority of the electorate agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Western Europe's First Communist Country? | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

...first unable to swallow the revised pledge, the New York Times briefly attempted to negotiate a third version. But once the Indian government turned thumbs down, the two Timesmen. on the scene, New Delhi Correspondent William Borders and Eric Pace of the Tehran Bureau, both gave in to the Indian censors. Explained Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal: "In our opinion, it amounts simply to an acknowledgement of receipt of a written government document and a statement by the correspondent that he will be responsible for whatever he writes." Newsweek magazine too, had refused to accept the original pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pledge of Allegiance? | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

...industry has one powerful incentive to swallow its disappointment at the low discovery rate and keep looking hard for crude: all oil from new wells is exempt from federal price controls and sells currently for about $12.50 per bbl.-versus an average price for domestic crude of $5.62 in October 1973-and President Ford has vetoed congressional attempts to force a rollback. So the price should be more than enough to make a new well lucrative-provided it is the one in seven that actually hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Drilling More, Finding Less | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

...that announces, "Jaws is playing. See it before you go swimming." Shark jokes are all black; in an interview with "Hollywood's No. 1 star" on the Tonight Show, Johnny Carson asked a foam rubber great white, "How do you keep your teeth clean?" Snapped the shark: "I swallow people with naturals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Nation Jawed | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

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