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Charles Lloyd is finishing up at the Performance II during the next few days. Lloyd plays sax and flute with a full back-up group. His salad days, whatever they are, are reportedly over and his music tends to get a little hairy nowadays. There are much better ways of spending your money this weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC | 7/5/1974 | See Source »

...abilities of men and women to deal with violent, or potentially violent, situations. Women were found to be similar or equal to men in the percentage of arrests they made that resulted in conviction, their attitude toward the public, the number of incidents they were involved in that required back-up support from other officers, the number of injuries they sustained on the job, and even the number of driving accidents they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Arresting Preconceptions | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

...Make a deal?that is the point. Baker [Senator Howard Baker], as I said, is going to keep at arm's length and you've got to be very firm with these guys or you may not end up with many things. Now as I said the only back-up position I can possibly see is one of a [inaudible] if Kleindienst [Richard Kleindienst, then Attorney General] wants to back [inaudible] for [inaudible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Further tales from the transcripts | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

Hall explained Sunday that the fire in the closet melted wires to York's fire bell, disabling the alarm system and preventing the alarm from sounding. Hall was out of town yesterday, but said earlier that his office would consider installing a back-up alarm system in the Houses...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Fire Rousts Lowell | 5/3/1974 | See Source »

...making their case, the critics have found-often with the help of the AEC'S own scientists-weak points in atomic technology, and so have spurred revisions in nuclear policies. Late last year, for example, the AEC issued new regulations to answer doubts concerning a crucial back-up safety device. Called the "emergency core cooling system" (ECCS), it is supposed to bathe the intensely hot reactor core with cooling water, thus preventing it from melting and releasing its radioactivity, if the primary cooling system fails. In 1972 an antinuclear coalition that calls itself the National Intervenors revealed in hearings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FUELS: The Nuclear Debate | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

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