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...season. There are reports they catch seagulls, pluck them alive, and when they decide to eat them, wring their necks. Dogs - that's one of their favorite foods too. I have a friend who had a setter, and one day he came home and saw the hide sitting right out front. That's their business if they eat dogs, but they shouldn't eat our dogs." As in the case of water for Ironton, Perez refuses to apply for federal grants to help the Vietnamese, because he fears federal controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: The Legacy of a Parish Boss Lives On | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...April the SEC charged Page with making sham deals overseas to hide various payoffs in connection with the sale of four Gulfstreams to Saudi Arabian Airlines between 1975 and 1977 and the 1975 sale of a Gulfstream to Morocco. The total unaccounted-for funds, says the commission: $5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rocky Times for a Highflyer | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...play lives or dies with the lead characters: Red Ryder, a young man trapped in a small town in New Mexico who puts on a James Dean, grease-and-tattoos front of tough independence to hide his inability to break free of his oppressive life; Teddy, a disaffected, belligerant hippie who passes through the small town; and Richard, a rich businessman whose suave manner belies his actual spinelessness...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: An American Nightmare | 8/18/1978 | See Source »

...other characters is a bit shocking, and in 1675 it must have been downright obscene. Through Horner, Wycherly punctures the veneer of London society and shows that the underlying motivations of all these "noble" people are sex and greed, made vulga by the artificial gentility which tries to hide them from view. What makes the country wife so refreshing is her total lack of artifice and her good-hearted gusto for sex and fun. Yet she too is a fool, just as Pinchwife and Sir Fidget are fools, just as the Ladies Fidget and Squeamish are hypocrites. There...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: The Joy of Cuckoldry | 8/11/1978 | See Source »

...days after the breakin, Mendell, who according to one investigator had been "running from pillar to post" in an attempt to hide from Big Tuna's wrath, disappeared. His body turned up six weeks later in the trunk of an Oldsmobile on Chicago's South Side. His arms had been bound, his neck slashed and a rope tied next to the wound to slow the flow of blood. Explained one investigator: "They forced him to watch himself bleed to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Fishy in Chicago | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

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