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If comparative times are any indication (and while they're tricky they are a pretty accurate way to gauge talent) Williams and UConn should be just about evenly matched with the 'Cliffe eight. All three teams have lost once each. Princeton, probably top seed at the Sprints, has beaten all...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe to Prepare for Sprints With Williams, UConn Sunday | 5/4/1973 | See Source »

Not once but several times, a rhetorical ghost from more than ten years ago came back voluntarily. "How's Tricky Dicky?" asked a farmer in the lobby of the bank. A few hours later a small businessman shook his head more in sadness than in anger and remarked, "Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Sadness in Mid-America | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

BUOYED by a rising tide of prosperity, consumers have gone on a damn-the-expense, damn-the-high-cost-of-living buying spree. The sustained burst of personal spending, especially in the first three months of 1973, is propelling retail sales and corporate profits to new peaks. It is also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: Scary Spending Avalanche | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

The technique is extremely tricky, however, and the view here is that Sheed to some extent has fumbled. The novel comes in two sections. The first is a recollection by Casey himself of his school and college years, the second a view of Casey's presidential campaign recorded by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Simple Waltz Steps | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

The story sometimes suggests James Bond in the 19th century. Blanche practices a tacky spiritualism, but Canning never quite debunks her ghosts. A spirit world flickers on the edges of the plot. The precise rationalism of government investigators softly edges toward the ambiguous realm of séances and contacts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

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