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...Thirties. The Crimson seemed to be less and less a hard news paper. The (allegedly) weekly Bookshelf supplement added distinction to the tone of the paper, with articles by Lincoln Kirstein, Henry Murray, Theodore Spencer, and other noted figures in arts and letters. The pictorial supplement continued, as tame and proper as any Sunday rotogravure section, and photographs became a more important part of the paper itself. Football, in season and sometimes out, took up columns of front page space, and Hu Flung Huey, the Crimson's prognosticator, would monopolize Page One with his predictions for Saturday's games. Football...
Explicit in its sex scenes, it is nevertheless tame compared with many other dirty movies. Yet, according to the distributors, it has grossed almost $3,000,000 in over 60 U.S. theaters-the biggest take of any hard-core porno movie to date. This is partly because women-both alone and with dates-have been lining up to see it. Many find it revolting, but some seem drawn to freckled Linda Lovelace, the female Don Juan who is also funny: a Mad magazine cloning of Little Annie Fanny and Mary Marvel. The Texas actress who plays the role, however, seems...
...Taming Inflation. In sum, President Nixon delivered on his promise to make 1972 "a great year" of rising production, moderating inflation and increasing job opportunities-and he turned the economy into a pro-Nixon issue at the polls in November. The economy did well largely because the Administration's policies, after stumbling for several years, succeeded in 1972. The wage-price controls helped tame inflation. The devaluation of the dollar strengthened U.S. currency in world money markets; although the U.S. ran a bad trade deficit for the second year in a row, the nation's exports are becoming...
...Business School graduate who was recruited by Finch to help run HEW, subsequently moved into the Interior Department to clean out Walter Hickel's supporters, and more recently served as the deputy director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Other aides likely to help tame the bureaucracy include Presidential Assistant Peter Flanigan and Special Consultant Leonard Garment...
...After all, lobotomies make for docile housewives who are tame, can bear and raise children, not speak out in front of the husband's colleagues, meet the boss's wife, blah, blah," he noted sarcastically...