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...President Gerald Ford aroused such a furor. Last week he signed into law the first phase of his economy and energy program, provoking a veritable gusher of criticism from across the political spectrum. It is an outpouring that will be hard for him to cap, and it could ultimately swamp his ambitious, multi-faceted program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Ford: Facing a Fresh Gusher of Criticism | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

Visiting teams use the home teams' horses to minimize transportation costs, and to eliminate advantages the teams swamp horses after the first period. Six fresh horses are brought in after the half and swapped again after the third period...

Author: By Barry R. Sloane, | Title: Polo Club Hoping for Best Season in a Decade | 1/29/1975 | See Source »

...banks to decide who will-and who will not-get a personal loan. He looks into the cozy relationships between many senior loan officers and their favorite corporate clients and considers the swelling torrent of bank paper work-28 billion checks in 1974 alone-that each year threatens to swamp the entire system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Risky Rewards | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

...swamp witch messes about with chicken blood and hogs' entrails, and ticks off possibilities. The Good Thing, she cackles, "must be the right function-in' of an organism as it participates in a form, or the fulfillment of a Ideological principle inherent in all matter, or ..." This owlish comedy is a blackface up side-down version of Merlin's routine in T.H. White's The Once and Future King. Merlin, who had all philosophy beneath his pointed hat, kept getting his spells confused. The swamp witch, who seems confused, spouts philosophy as if she were Hegel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smoky Legend | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...anesthetized by hair spray and appliance hum, then, cast off and pregnant, the victim of a ghetto fire Finally back in Georgia, withered and maimed, she completes the seven ages of black woman (something like this seems to be in the author's mind) by be coming a swamp witch herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smoky Legend | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

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