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...tactic of running over any pedestrians who can be found along the course. Since the race starts in New York and ends in New Los Angeles several days later, a large part of the U.S. population is available for scoring. A driver gets 70 points for running down a toddler, for example, or 100 for flattening a senior citizen. The race has become the new national pastime, having replaced such old-fashioned pursuits as football, baseball, boxing, basketball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cheerful Larceny | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

...Shut up, you black bitch!" shouted the nursery school student as she gave her black doll a sound wallop. The toddler-a little black girl-was just "playing house." Her teacher-a white woman-did not know what to say. Should she remonstrate with the child and tell her that "black is beautiful" or something of the sort? The answer, say two black psychiatrists, is no: the concept of black pride "is too intellectual" at this age. "In a case like this, you could say, 'Nadine, I'm sure the baby will stop crying if you hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Black Dr. Spocks | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

Over a picture of a toddler touching his mother's nipple: "My mommy has the most fantastic breasts." Above a photo of a nude little boy: "I've got a penis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Show and Tell | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

...toddler's leash had restrained her childhood exuberance, but Myrtle Anderson did not know how to stop Joan's postcurfew carousing or curb her iron spirit. Says Joni: "It was then and still is a constant war to liberate myself from values not applicable to the period in which I live." At 19, after a brief try at art school in Calgary, Joan decided to become a professional musician. Too poor to join the musicians' union, she floated around Toronto until one night she met Chuck Mitchell, a cabaret performer from Detroit who was appearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll's Leading Lady | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

Last week people in four buses and several private cars made the journey to Tule Lake. Motives were mixed. "It was something my parents didn't talk a lot about," said Kouji Nakutu, 30, who was born in Tule Lake and left as a toddler. For the first 25 years of his life, he "went around denying that I was a Japanese American." He returned to Tule Lake because "I want to trace my roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Tule Lake 30 Years Later | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

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