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The Bruins appear to have finally hit the big time, immortalized by an appearance in a televised championship game. Whether they are worthy of that renown will be answered in a few hours.

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Tom Columns | 11/15/1975 | See Source »

Hopeful Blip. One would like to entertain idealistic dreams about the sudden consumer resistance to business as usual in television. Occasionally, indeed, a hopeful blip appears on the screen. Last week a worthy special, The Incredible Machine, running on PBS, whomped its commercial competitors in some major markets, gaining a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: When Things Are Rotten | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

Defiled goods are not worthy of their owners; for this reason, raped women have often been rejected by their husbands and abandoned by their families (the plight of the women of Bangladesh is a prime example). In some cultures, like that of the ancient Hebrews, victims shared the terrible fate...

Author: By Sarah Crichton, | Title: Unlocking Rape | 11/6/1975 | See Source »

HALL was born in 1871 to a Presbyterian minister who seems also to have been an ardent member of the Ku Klux Klan, and when he arrived in New Orleans, a friend of his later remembered, he was "the handsomest young man in all New Orleans...the best dressed man...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: In Search of Covington Hall | 10/23/1975 | See Source »

New York City will not be the same as cutbacks and reforms are inevitably pressed upon it. "When you leave New York, you're only camping out," boasted Jimmy Walker, the 1920s mayor whose smart-talking, big-spending style symbolized the city then and now. New York has to do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW TO SAVE NEW YORK | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

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