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...really knows the economic consequences of imposing uniform electric rates. Massachusetts, with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, can't afford to be the testing ground for an experiment that could wreak economic havoc in the state...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Dissenting Opinion | 10/27/1976 | See Source »

...novel Dr. Paul Konig is chief medical examiner of New York City and a world-famous expert in forensic pathology. He is thus in a position to view - anatomically and microscopically - the violence that human beings living in the city wreak upon one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Burial Rights | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...just six years ago to symbolize a "deep sense of the eminent and singular benefits received from him." This week, after the Declaration of Independence was officially read to the populace on the Common in the presence of General George Washington, a huge crowd surged down Broad Way to wreak vengeance on the statue. Having drunk plenty of rum and ale, the crowd first pulled the royal horse from its pedestal, then hacked off the King's head, fired a musket shot into it, pounded away the nose and pried off the laurel wreath. With fife and drums playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Tyrant Transmuted | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...paper published in Nature, G.C. Reid and I.S.A. Isaksen of NOAA, T.E. Holzer of NCAR and Crutzen suggest that the solar particles may not directly wreak their havoc on life during magnetic field reversals. Instead, unobstructed by the field, they may deplete the ozone layer by as much as 50% by creating nitrogen oxides, letting in lethal doses of ultraviolet light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ozone Alert | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...result is a prescription that "order" is wrong and that "sub-normal twits and gibbering hunks of animality" should inherit the earth. Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) arrives at a relatively quiet ward in a mental institution, where three-quarters of the patients are "voluntaries," and he proceeds to wreak havoc. The only crazy thing about him, he claims, is that all he wants to do is "fight and fuck." The state work farm has referred him to the doctors, who think he's faking. He does his best to show them they're wrong...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Off the Bus, Off the Wall | 1/14/1976 | See Source »

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