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...mood was already very ugly. I nursed a quart of beer and a smoke in the back row with my friend and an 8-year-old who knew every line of every Stooges movie (I swear it) and looked around for a cop, or Derek cop, or something...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: A Night With The Stooges | 3/20/1975 | See Source »

...Bell's statement that "no one even seems to swear any more" was the biggest laugh I have had in a long time. They certainly had his visit well planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Feb. 24, 1975 | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...Haigler (21 points), Henry Johnson (23 points, 11 rebounds), and Bob Bigelow (18 and 12) play so well that you'd swear they've been practicing together since the second grade. Throw in the 17-point contribution of John Beecroft, and keep in mind that All-Ivy performer John Engles is out for the season with an injury, and you quickly realize that Penn is not just another basketball team...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Quakers Explode in Second Half to Destroy Cagers | 2/18/1975 | See Source »

...above what it was during the days of the draft," and the evidence at Fort Jackson seems to back him up. The rates of courts-martial and AWOLs are down. I never talked to more soldiers who did less bitching. In fact, no one even seems to swear any more. I heard exactly one four-letter word. On a rifle range, a sergeant turned on a complainer and shouted, "That's tough shit, soldier!" The lieutenant in charge of the range looked shocked. He grinned at me and said, "Well, you can't change human nature." The incident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: This Is the Army Mr. Jones? | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

...conspiracy to get me and Playboy." Describing Arnstein as "one of the best, brightest, most worthwhile women I've ever known," Hefner also insisted on his own total innocence of drug involvement: "I have never used cocaine or any hard drug or narcotic, and I am willing to swear to that under oath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Clouds Over Bunnyland | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

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