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...this mysterious tar-pounder? He was captain of his high school soccer and lacrosse teams, played semi-pro soccer and was on the ski patrol at a New York state ski area. He can grab a football and casually fling it 50 yards--in a perfect spiral...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Philippe Bennett--Zorro of the Ivies | 2/20/1976 | See Source »

...look blue, and cake mixes would have a lemony-green tinge. The substance is Red Dye No. 2, which has been used for decades to brighten up innumerable products, including frankfurter casings, pet foods, ice cream, gravies, makeup and myriad red pills. About 1 million pounds of the coal-tar-based stuff-a $5 million industry in itself-have ended up annually in more than $10 billion worth of foods, drugs and cosmetics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REGULATION: Death of a Dye | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...taught us a lesson. This is a presidential campaign, and we have to be much more cautious and carefully researched." What is more, the idea has such a tar-baby quality that Reagan is now perfectly willing to share its paternity. In snowy Conway, N.H., last week, he credited Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy with similar notions and shrugged: "It isn't a new idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Reagan's $90 Billion Blunder | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...correctly if sternly. As the days passed, one baby was born, another died. When the seven Russian diplomats arrived from their abandoned embassy, they were loaded down with huge supplies of tinned meat and vodka. They refused to share the goods with the other inmates, thereby becoming the bitter tar gets of Westerners' jokes about revisionist influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Long March from Phnom-Penh | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

...these various pursuits to carouse with his lumpish buddy Pov (John Beck) and play a fierce, albeit mediocre, game of hockey. As if to establish an affinity with his namesake, the town marshal of Dodge City, Dillon likes to don Western duds and pop off a few rounds at tar get practice. In Delisle he is a novelty. But as this movie amply proves, there is not much happening up there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hockey Punk | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

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