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...would have been devastated if the plane had not broken up so quickly. Donna Freer, 33, was baking a pecan pie when her mobile home was rocked by the explosion just 150 yds. away. She ran outside to see an elderly couple, John and Mary Bielski, standing in their underwear just outside their flaming house. They were shaken but unhurt. Two other residents of the park were burned, one critically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Worst U.S. Air Crash | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...television soap operas, playing cards, studying the rules of the senate and consuming more than $350 worth of liquor and cold food smuggled into their hideaway by trusted assistants. The ill-prepared band soon began to swelter in the small room. They shed their outer clothes, padded around in underwear, and began to get on each other's nerves. Noted Mauzy: "When you get nine egomaniacs together, all nine want to be chief and no one wants to be an Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Flight of the Killer Bees | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...over the fireplace. Upstairs in Theta House a green banner forlornly proclaims, WHEN BETTER WOMEN ARE MADE, DARTMOUTH MEN WILL MAKE THEM. Through halls that seem to carry scars from ancient battles, a brother who has just wakened stumbles along, scratching his chest and testing the elastic of his underwear. He is sucking sleepily on a lollipop. "Boy did I get messed up last night," he mutters, turning lazily toward the showers. Another brother offers the visitor an opinion: "Every time there is anything all-male, the women can't wait to break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene: In Hanover: The Big Green Battle of the Sexes | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Harvard administrators reacted with less enthusiasm, and Withington received a call from the dean's office. "There was nothing Harvard could do to me," he said. "It was perfectly harmless and wholesome--like stealing underwear from Radcliffe and tying it to a flagpole in Harvard Square," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goldfish Swallower Marks Anniversary of First Fish | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

...spittoons for state dinners. Though the show's title promises a smattering of gossip, only that old whipping boy Harding receives less than reverential treatment. Instead of dirty linen, there's clean linen: in one scene we learn that Harry Truman (Harry Morgan) regularly laundered his own underwear! The attempts to humanize the Presidents are childish. Does it really tell us anything that Wilson once danced to Balling the Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Little Corn, Lots of White House | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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