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...women's squad, unable to compete when Northeastern could find no women willing to face the Crimson, nonetheless "performed admirably," Morrison said, in their first public exhibition. Anne Harrington, Marcia Hyslop, Virginia Santos-Newman, Lynn Toler and Shelley Taylor "were in front of real judges, with real scores, and they did really well," Morrison said...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Gymnasts Hold 1st Meet Ever | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...easy decision: "Tears rolled down my cheeks all the time I was signing the agreement," Mrs. Juanita Mayle said. "It was like putting a price tag on our husbands' bodies." Mrs. Barbara Toler, 25, like the other young widows, has had difficulty planning for the future: "I go with a very fine man-he's a miner-and we do plan to be married. But until this is settled, I don't feel I'm free." Mrs. Toler signed the agreement after "the company told us it would take three to five years to get them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Consol No. 9: A Decent Burial | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...have most women failed to find the key to dominance? The traditional male rationale is that females are physically and intellectually inferior, an argument without much basis in fact. In certain physical characteristics - toler ance of cold and pain, digital dexterity, longevity - women are superior to men.' In a new book, Men in Groups (Random House; $6.95), Sociologist Lionel Tiger of Rutgers University proposes an other explanation for male cultural domination. The survival of society, he argues, depends more crucially on man's affinity for man than on his reproductive affinity for women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Men in Bonds | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...long film career as a supersleuth, Charlie was portrayed by six actors, none of them Chinese.* Best remembered are Warner Oland, a Swede, who appeared in 16 features, and Sidney Toler, a Missourian, who lumbered woodenly through 22 pictures portraying Charlie as the still life of the party. Made on B-picture budgets, the Chan films show their age with simple-minded mysteries solvable in the second reel by any post-Bond youngster of eight. They also rely heavily on antique comic relief as subtle as a pig bladder. Charlie's No. 1 and No. 2 sons incessantly glue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Movies: Sub-Gumshoe | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

Despite November's sharp dip in unemployment, the total at year's end was still running half again as high as the 4% rate that the Administration deems toler able. More serious, there had been painfully little reduction of unemployment amongst those last-hired, first-fired groups of Americans: the unskilled, the Negroes, the very old and the very young, notably the high school dropouts. In 1961, unskilled and semiskilled laborers constituted less than a quarter of the U.S. work force-but almost half the long-term unemployed. In an increasingly automated and sophisticated economy, those workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Automation Speeds Recovery, Boosts Productivity, Pares Jobs | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

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