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...snap for the point-after attempt was bobbled and kicker Bob Tetaldi's improvised end run was stopped by a swarm of green jerseys...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: J.V. Upset Dartmouth; Freshmen Drop Close Game | 10/15/1977 | See Source »

...Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood, an original Beatles 45 r.p.m. single can get you $100 or more. Later this month Chicago's Palmer House hotel will be the site of "Come Together-Beatle Fest '77," a convention to which hordes of Beatles fans will swarm to discuss the meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: I Wanna Hold Your Hand-Again' | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...extreme, sociobiology holds that all forms of life exist solely to serve the purposes of DNA, the coded master molecule that determines the nature of all organisms and is the stuff of genes. As British Ethologist Richard Dawkins describes the role and drive of the genes, they "swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic lumbering robots, sealed off from the outside world, manipulating it by remote control. They are in you and me; they created us body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence we are their survival machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why You Do What You Do | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...sinking into whipped cream castles in the middle of February. The fee is for the privilege of engaging in one of America's favorite sports: gazing at the idle rich. Americans are notorious people watchers, and every afternoon between 3:30 and 4:00, the Fifth Avenue window shopper swarm into the Palm Court, trying to casually blend in with the Fifth Avenue shoppers, surreptitiously glancing at the rich matrons and other Beautiful People...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Poor Little Rich Folks | 7/8/1977 | See Source »

With 113 parts affecting nearly all Americans, the Carter Administration's energy bill is turning into one of history's great challenges to lobbyists. Almost daily, they swarm through congressional hearing rooms and in the Capitol's corridors, pressing politicians and seeking to shape the proposed legislation to the liking of myriad special interest groups. For Ellen Berman, a stylish Barnard Russian major, it is an 18-hour-a-day job. She is director of the energy policy task force (annual budget: $50,000) of the Consumer Federation of America. Says she: "Lobbying, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: Lobbying the Carter UFO | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

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