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...Northeastern Horticultural and Cultural Society did it to us again," Harvard coach Bill McCurdy said yesterday in reference to John and Bob Flora, identical twins from Northeastern who took first and third respectively in the five-mile event. John's time is a course record...

Author: By James D. Auran, | Title: 'Cliffe Nabs GBC Title; Harvard Harriers Second | 10/20/1976 | See Source »

Stubborn persistence in trying to follow the film's plot may raise as many questions as it answers. The following, however, is clear: a sadistic old Nazi named Christian Szell (Olivier) is hiding out in luxury among the flora and fauna of Uruguay. Szell has kept snug on fees he collected from Jews in concentration camps. To help them escape the gas ovens, he first accepted gold-often fillings from teeth, which he obligingly pulled himself-then diamonds. The diamonds are stashed in a Manhattan safe-deposit box, watched over by Szell's brother, who, as the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dead Heat | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

...going gets tough I can think back on all those fish I caught. On God and politics-- Distance running is the same as religion. Justice will triumph. On last year's captain Bill Okerman-- Okerman is staging a deadly war with rigor mortis. On two top Northeastern runners, the Flora twins--You know, I'm a gardener during the summer, and two twins named Flora put the finishing touches on us. Something is just not right. I just swear when I see them. Damn their souls. If we had some of that weed spray, I would have sprayed...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Savoir-Faire | 10/7/1976 | See Source »

...land of cotton, Spanish moss and magnolias has other distinctive and less felicific flora-and fauna-that can all but grab the unwary. Some examples that would catch a Yankee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South/environment: Ecological Exotica | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...lions clambering aboard the ark. The budget did not permit construction of the ark nor the assembling of all God's creatures. For the Creation story, Heyman wove together spectacular color footage of the sun and stars, flowing lava, beasts on the Kenya highlands and fish and flora along an ocean floor. In Eden, Adam and Eve are discreetly nude, and without navels. Heyman insists that he will film every jot and tittle of the Law of Moses, but his project will be well into the 1990s before he faces the challenge of dramatizing the doctrinal letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Holy Scripts | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

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