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Shrill Opponents. A mild-mannered ear, nose and throat specialist, Hopp, along with his board, was accused by the grand jury of amateurism and weakness in the face of attack by "small, shrill groups of opponents." The report pointedly suggested that "more than mere citizenship be considered as qualification for election to this board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fogbound Schools | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...last year's Thanksgiving dinner, a basketball team tradition at the Gilberts' that ranks next to Sunday bagels-and-lox brunch, Walton (on a dare) gleefully wolfed down an entire pumpkin pie smothered with a quart of ice cream. When Bill came down with a severe strep throat last season, he went to the Gilberts' to recuperate. Says Walton of Sam: "He's just a great dude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Patron Called Papa Sam | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...sort of sidle away from him til some woman by the jukebox laughs at the man and tells him he ain't man enough to cut that boy's hair. Then he really went after me. He had me from the back and had that knife at my throat when Patty yells at him "You son of a bitch!" and punches him so he lets go of me. I think the only thing that got me out of there alive was that he was more ashamed of having to hit a woman to get at me than he was determined...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: In Spudnick's | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

Swallowed, the mainstay of these listings for the last month or so, has been temporarily cancelled because of technical problems. A frog in its throat, maybe...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: THE STAGE | 2/14/1974 | See Source »

...Little Lads." Nonetheless, many of those in debt as well as surface workers, power workers, and clerical staff will vote no. "How can I live on nothing at all?" asks Jack Chapman, a clerical worker at the Gedling pit for 22 years. "I'm not cutting my own throat." But most of Britain's colliers, the ones who dig out the coal day after day for 30 and 40 years, will vote, even reluctantly, with their union. "They thought we'd go back to work like little lads," says Whelan. "But Ted Heath stumbled into something bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Miners' Tough Choice | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

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