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The land became choked and glutted with the unwanted and untouched presents that kept coming out of The Santa Corporation's plants by the truckload. And while the company kept spewing out holiday paraphernalia like a merry-go-round with no brakes, the Clausists erected a tremendous monument outside the...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Christmas Fable | 12/9/1977 | See Source »

"a nite with beau willie brown" crystallizes the anguish only hinted at elsewhere in the performance. The poem begins gently but ominously as Beverley describes her youthful involvement with Willie Brown and the two unwanted pregnancies that result. Brown abandons the woman but returns to her house one night, half...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: A Special Spectrum | 11/19/1977 | See Source »

BLIND TO INVISIBLE BORDERS created by invisible men, many Mexicans are flowing northward into a territory that once was their own. Drawn by the hope of a better life, approximately 90 per cent of the illegal immigrants are able-bodied young men without work in Mexico, victims of agricultural mechanization...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Invisible Borders, Visible Problems | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

In this situation of rising frustration, where Catholics and Protestants are neither appeased nor powerful, an ominous political sullenness has developed. The British government is in the curious position of being 'not wanted' and at the same time, "not unwanted." So far, this dislike has been tempered by the ever...

Author: By Christopher Agee, | Title: A Bleeding Ulster | 11/2/1977 | See Source »

For his part Steinbrenner, a barrel-chested former athlete and coach who became head of a shipbuilding company, considered himself a man who knew how to handle street fighters. Before he hired Martin-who had been dumped from his past three managing jobs-Steinbrenner closely questioned the other owners. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nice Guys Always Finish . . . ? | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

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