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...couple of pool tables, and two poker tables in the rear. The dance hall is locked. Only a dozen people are in the joint. All are kids: a blurry-faced, rumpled Italian from Boston; a buck shouldered mama in a Porsche tee-shirt giving a two-handed thigh clasp to slit-eyed tough with TKO'ed reflexes; a plump little blonde in a too-tight girdle and high, cut jeans who's loosing her battle for the shag-cut brown-haired, fishy-moustached, brown-oiled, flat-faced stud in the bleach spotted blue sweatshirt who passes God-knowing glances...

Author: By Edmund Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, and an Elk Head | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

...submit more than 1 million computerized entries and win close to half the prizes. Meanwhile, McDonald's is test-marketing a $1.10 fried-chicken plate. If it succeeds, it would not only steal a march on Jack-in-the-Box and Burger King, but put itself into thigh-to-thigh combat with another fast-food giant: Kentucky Fried Chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Jack v. Mac | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

...11/2 inches in diameter, folded them like umbrellas and fitted them into a capsule less than a quarter of an inch in diameter. The capsule was attached to the end of a catheter inside a catheter, which was inserted into a large vein in Suzette Marie's right thigh and worked through a pathway of veins into the heart (see diagram). The doctors then pushed the capsule and outer catheter first into the right atrium and finally into the left atrium, extended the first umbrella and pulled it back against the edges of the opening. Then they drew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aiding Ailing Hearts | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

...left thigh I have prints of both the frame and the strings," lamented Cashin. But it was all in the course of duty: Cashin won the next three games for the B flight title...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Racquetmen Grab Intercollegiate Title | 3/4/1975 | See Source »

...over Parent's shoulder into the net. When Bobby Clarke skated by the Flyer goalie to encourage him, he heard Parent laughing and saying behind his mask, "Gee that kid can shoot." Another time when reporters in the dressing room spotted an ugly bruise on Parent's thigh and asked if a slap shot had caused it, he replied: "Nah, my wife bit me in a wild fit of passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courage and Fear in a Vortex of Violence | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

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