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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brynteson also spent hours this summer kicking a ball against a wall to strengthen her kick, and ignoring the cries of passing hecklers who would inform her that "de ball ain't gonna go through no matter how many times you kick...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Brynteson: A Low-Key MVP | 11/7/1978 | See Source »

...kinky, you say? Kind of off-the-wall? Well, maybe. But WHRB sees its role as just that--giving airtime to avant-garde groups and offering parallel fare to that played on the large, popular radio stations...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: On the Air | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Campaign headquarters for Francis W. Hatch Jr. '46--the quiet gentleman from Beverly Farms who wants to be governor of Massachusetts--are not what you would expect. The walls are yellow and peeling--just a little hole in the wall on 14 Beacon Street. One switchboard, six telephones, no hold buttons, no cotton ribbed turtlenecks--just a bunch of kids, sitting around stuffing envelopes. There is one sign on the wall. "Make the King the Ruler of Massachusetts for the next four years, and you'll think Henry the VIII was a nice...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: You Sure You Want a Governor? | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...screening room has wall-to-wall carpeting. Spider plants spill down from pots hung near the windows. A poster urges lucky tourists to ski the slopes at nearby Westford. Belisle's manner is businesslike. At 35 he is already graying and his narrow face has a mournful, clerkish look. But the transactions he records in this brightly furnished office in Worcester, Mass., deal not with commerce but with cruelty. And cruelty of a kind that few people can contemplate with any measure of equanimity-the torture of small children by their parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: A Hot Line to Tragedy | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

When pauses came in the Blair House Middle East negotiations, some of the delegates leaned back and looked at the wall. A somber visage was there to remind them of what happens when reason fails. There is a portrait of Ulysses S. Grant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Ghosts and Pecan Bars | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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