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Standing on the Hollis South steps--the only soul in the Yard at the time--was a creature with a boyish face and short-cropped hair, clad in a crimson jersey with the Harvard insignia on it, baggy tan pants, white socks and tattered grey shoes...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Yale Game: Soc Sci 2 and Irish Whiskey | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...unusual sight of red and tan kilts worn by 21 members of the amateur Stuart Pipe Band and the equally strange wail of bagpipes drew passers-by from Plympton St. and the largest crowd of Quincy House students and affiliates ever to attend the event...

Author: By Marilyn L. Booth, | Title: Dunn Exorcises Ghosts, Spirits In Ceremony at Quincy House | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...ever growing government bureaucracy encompasses 1.1 million of the country's 4.1 million workers. It inundates businessmen with almost endless forms and regulates a great deal of private life. A man who wants to repaint his house, for instance, must use officially approved colors (chiefly, various shades of tan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Something Souring in Utopia | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

...court, reported TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs from Luanda, the mercenaries were dressed identically in beltless, one-piece tan prison-issue jumpsuits. During the twice-daily sessions, the prisoners sat calmly on backless wooden stools on a red-roped dock facing the tribunal−a court that consisted of two Angolan lawyers, two soldiers and a representative of OMA, the national women's organization. The mercenaries followed the questioning intently on headsets for simultaneous translation into five languages−English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian. There was a point to having the proceedings delivered in the two latter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANGOLA: Rough Justice At a Show Trial | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...which add spice to the otherwise rather mechanical beat. Jagger's voice, strained to cracking and loaded with insinuation, narrates this first person tale of a poor man's encounter with a South American whore. "One last dollar/I've got my pride/I'll cut your balls and I'll tan your hide." Subtle? The Stones always did have a way with words. But like "Hot Stuff," "Hey Negrita" suffers at the hands of too much repetition...

Author: By Margaret ANN Hamburg, | Title: Black and Blue | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

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