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...Button was holding its daily post-beach college party (reservations required), and the participants this day were Harvard, Brown, Cornell, Delaware and Oswego State. The entrants take part in three competitions--a banana-eating contest (the Nat Sci), a beer-chugging relay (the Soc Sci), and a wet tee-shirt event (the Hum)--with one school emerging as the overall victor. Sort of like the Olympics, if you know what I mean...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Reeling and Peeling | 4/12/1977 | See Source »

...running. Bragg reached for the fire handles above his head. He grabbed only open sky. As the cockpit floor gave way, Captain Grubbs fell into the first-class compartment below, then somehow stumbled onto a wing and dropped to the ground. "Just to sink down in the green grass wet with rain was so heavenly," he said later. He might have stayed there?and died?but Purser Dorothy Kelly dragged him to safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: ...What's he doing? He'll kill us all!' | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...said. 'I have three beautiful wives.' They had this thing about cleanliness. They told the men they had to sit to go to the bathroom, so they wouldn't splash urine around. They had the male hostages clean up the toilets. There was one girl who wet her pants. The gunmen told a B'nai B'rith man to clean the floor, and they had the girl take off her wet slacks and put on a pair of painter's overalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: And I Hadn't Typed My Will' | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...social life is similarly neglected. "There is no way I'd put up with any man who had a life-style like mine," she says, but allows that eventually "I'd like to go back to Virginia. I want a station wagon full of kids and wet bathing suits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Prime Time for TV Newswomen | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

Linda is 30 now. Her skin is flawed, and her lank dark hair is sketched with gray. She has great wet marmot eyes. She has a quick, sly mouth. She looks like a 17-year-old who has spent three days on a bus. A photographer whose profession calls for him to make cool calibrations of female beauty says her face is ordinary and her body nothing special. In courtly times he would have been skewered. She sings You 're No Good, Desperado or Love Has No Pride, and the eye of the beholder mists over. She is beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linda Down the Wind | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

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