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Cincinnati's Lee May had to learn the hard way. In the first game the muscular first baseman drilled a sure-fire double down the third-base line-or so he and 51,531 fans thought. In one lightning motion, Brooks whirled across the line, snared the ball backhand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Destructive Force of Robby the Robber | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

Honky Tonk is a drug-culture parody of older comic book forms and advertising techniques. Sandwiched between the two principal stories, a full-page ad, layed-out with True Grit's promos, boasts. "Get both spending money and a real high!" The serious kid with shoulder satchels full of newspapers...

Author: By Robert Crosby, | Title: Uncle Sam's Kids Hee-Hee, Bogeyman, and Honky | 10/22/1970 | See Source »

The current Russian practice of samizdat (self-publishing) is well-known in the West. By samizdat, Russians endlessly retype and clandestinely circulate the work of such banned Russian writers as Alexander Solzhenitsyn. With the increasing availability of tape recorders, another practice, called magnitizdat (publishing by tape recorder), is becoming even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Music of Dissent | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

To treat the disease, physicians replace the body's lost fluids with intravenous infusions of water and salts. Antibiotics, such as tetracycline, may also be used. If administered in time, the treatment is almost 100% effective. But untreated, cholera kills more than half of its victims and spreads with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Potent Pandemic | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

Lightning Bug is a modest but totally satisfying novel. Like the little boy Donny, the author spent his childhood summers in the Ozarks, and to him the men of Stay More are still gods. In his private time capsule, the arrival of the mail and the ice peddler or-evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Midsummer Dream | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

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