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Looking around the station you see the usual weekend crowd, multiplied by a special Fourth of July factor, streaming across the platforms to the Manhattan-bound trains. It is a white, albeit well-tanned crowd: Jamaica Station is the terminal stop for all the trains coming in from the Hamptons...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The End of the Line | 7/7/1978 | See Source »

But the British colonization was a Pyrrhic success. To a great extent, British policy failed in Ireland and continues to fail in Northern Ireland. To be specific, it is the English who have failed. As a nation, they have never understood "those impossible people," the Irish, nor truly cared to...

Author: By Christopher Agee, | Title: A Bleeding Ulster | 11/2/1977 | See Source »

As each limo drew up, one heard a brief, collective indrawing of breath as lungs dilated for the big squeal; generally it was followed by a disappointed exhalation, as the couple issuing from the Cadillac turned out to be unrecognizable. Lip gloss, hair spray, three-tone streaks, cocoa-butter tans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Day for Night Stars | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

It is a month to work on tans, to predict whether you will hit .246 or .247, and to tell reporters that if everything falls into place, and the pitching comes through, then your team could be a real contender this year.

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky and Mike Savit, S | Title: The Grapefruit League: It's Not if You Win or Lose, But How Tan You Get | 4/9/1976 | See Source »

So, for most of us--that is, anyone who is not big enough to play hockey, or tall enough to play hoop, or rich and blithe enough to cultivate winter tans--the problem of keeping the body in one piece until the swallows fly remains.

Author: By Chris Daly, | Title: The Daly Papers | 12/16/1975 | See Source »

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