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Harvard wing Dan DeMichele didn't seem too worried, though, as he munched his popcorn in section 2 last night. "We're going to fill the net." he predicted. "We haven't done that for quite a while. Maybe eight or nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickmen Favored in NCAA Semi-Finals | 3/19/1971 | See Source »

Kris Johnson, 23, an electronics technician in Redmond, Wash., is working only four days a week now, and his income has dropped 15%. He and his wife have given up moviegoing in favor of getting together with friends for beer and popcorn, and the Johnsons are growing a vegetable garden to cut food bills. Johnson gave his wife a choice of giving up either bowling or driving to reduce expenses; she chose to continue bowling, so last week he sold the family's 1966 Galaxie, keeping a 1962 Buick. "I think this is the time to liquidate whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Upturn That Feels Like a Slump | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

...golf. The back eventually healed, but he has had to avoid contact sports and now wears a half-inch lift in his left shoe. Because of his physical handicap, he could never become a powerhouse like Nicklaus and Palmer, booming out 300-yd. drives. "I'm strictly a popcorn hitter," he says. Yet he learned to keep his drives straight and developed a deadly accurate short game. There was something else, too: the power of positive thinking. "If you just think about what you want to do," he says, "your mind will correct your faults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Prize for a Popcorn Hitter | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

...would say "bwana" on safari? They would like to see sexual equilibrium. But then would could tolerate Eliot Gould's lines in Getting Straight: "She's a good scientist, lousy lay"; Candice Bergen's lines, "I didn't even feel like a date-you didn't buy me popcorn" or anonymous gems: "Women have that charming ability to adapt to whatever man they're with...

Author: By Dziga Vertov, | Title: Revolution... at 16 Frames Per Second | 7/28/1970 | See Source »

...people at the Freshman Union have agreed to lend us their equipment to make coffee. Cookies, popcorn, and other neat stuff will be served," Rochman said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coffee House to Open With Free Singing; Poetry is Theme | 2/26/1970 | See Source »

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