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...candidates, McCloskey is in the tightest financial bind. His sole big-time benefactor is California Industrialist Norton Simon, who so far has given $40,000. Otherwise, McCloskey has had to appeal to the small giver. "Pete McCloskey," read an ad in last week's New York Times, "would rather have his campaign financed by 10,000 people who want to participate directly than by a few big spenders. It's an oldfashioned, democratic idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Of Fat Cats and Other Angels | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...tightest pitching duel of the Series, Brayton had shut out the Broncos when Bo McNurlen-and old schoolmate of the Crimson's J. C. Nickens-doubled to lead off the sixth for Pan American...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Pan Am Eliminates Harvard, 1-0 | 6/15/1971 | See Source »

...best JV hockey teams in years and a stew of hockey-playing sophomores have combined to produce one of the tightest House intramural hockey races in years...

Author: By Bradford B. Kopp, | Title: Intramural Hockey Race Tightens | 2/18/1971 | See Source »

Nostalgia, that longing for the no-longer, has proved profitable in fashion, films and the Broadway stage, where the revival of 1925's No, No Nanette is one of the tightest tickets in town. Now it is moving into publishing. The venerable Saturday Evening Post will rise again as a quarterly in June, and April will bring forth the rebirth of Liberty. The self-styled "weekly for everybody" folded in 1950 after a quarter-century of high circulation but low profits. Peddled door-to-door by a small army of kids coveting catchers' mitts, Liberty leaned hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Life for Liberty | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

Aiken said that he has been told nothing more about the operations since last Friday, and called the government's information blackout "the tightest censorship since World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U. S., South Vietnam Invade Laos News Blackout Continues | 2/3/1971 | See Source »

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