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...showdown with the rest of the top ten begins next weekend when 17 teams vie for the Boston Dinghy Club Cup, out of the MIT boathouse. The Crimson squad will be without the services of All-American Terry Neff, who found out that St. Petersburg is nicer this time of year than Cambridge...

Author: By William E. Stedman, | Title: Rock Steady | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

JODY POWELL, 32, Press Secretary. A southwestern Georgia farm boy, he was raised in Vienna (pronounced Vie-anna), not far from Carter's home town of Plains, and was headed for a military career until he was dismissed from the Air Force Academy for cribbing on a history exam in 1964. While working on a doctorate in political science at Georgia State University, he joined Carter as his driver in the 1970 campaign and later became press secretary. Powell spends much time these days replying to charges, often false, about Carter's past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Men Behind a Front Runner | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

Bayh has placed a high priority on the April 6 primary in New York, where he has said he hopes to vie for the first-place slot with Jackson and Udall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bayh Weighs Withdrawal; Carter Falls From Grace | 3/3/1976 | See Source »

...HERE'S ALSO a Czechoslovakian film about the abduction of a harpist, in which hero and villain tangle, and justice prevails satisfactorily against a stark, nightmarish background. In "Euphoria," Peter Max poster colors vie with Matisse-like cutouts in a sort of Lucy-In-The-Sky jazz visual. A Japanese short which follows uses dolls to narrate a Japanese folktale about two hunters who sever the arm of a demon while hunting, and return home only to find their ancient mother bleeding to death in demonic anguish, with a missing...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Animating Entertainment | 2/11/1976 | See Source »

...pulls up stakes. He shakes hands with Dad (Mike Kellin), kisses a resentful, concerned Mom (Shelley Winters) and leaves their small Brooklyn apartment for even smaller and certainly colder quarters in Greenwich Village. Larry wants to be an actor, and his departure is his first full step into la vie bohème. He dares not put on his beret, however, until he is safely on the subway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bohemian Rhapsody | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

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