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Gauld attributed the lack of success in getting renewals to misrepresentation in the promotional letter. "The type of magazine promoted in the mailing pieces suggested articles that would have deeper education content than what was produced taking the issues as a whole," she said. She added that the Harvard Alumni...

Author: By Mary B. Ridge, | Title: She Left Before the Roof Fell In | 5/14/1976 | See Source »

The 50-man crew of the submarine are an unappealing lot. They are first encountered at their home port, St.-Nazaire, in Occupied France, taking a final orgiastic gulp of life before setting out on Atlantic patrol. The time is 1941.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plumbers of the Deep | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

The second position is appealing because it doesn't accept stereotyped social dramas as the only "real" human relations, and because we've come to realize that body chemistry often is the effect, not the stimulus, of interpersonal conflict. But the theory is unappealing when it becomes a repetitive chant...

Author: By Charles E. Stephen, | Title: Forcing the Limits of Sanity | 2/26/1975 | See Source »

Until the end of World War II, doctors treated hypertensives, if they treated them at all, mainly by diet. Patients with high blood pressure were told to take off weight and lower their salt intakes. Some patients were put on an almost totally salt-free rice diet so unappealing that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONQUERING THE QUIET KILLER | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

The supporting roles are generally well-handled--with one glaring exception. The character of Paul Verrall, as written, is fairly unappealing--self-righteous and stuffy--but Jerry Colker succeeds in making him unbearably obnoxious. His face is frozen into an expression of supreme smugness, broken occasionally by a smile of...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: Out of the Mouths of Babes | 10/10/1974 | See Source »

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