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KIRKLAND HOUSE--Razor's Edge (from a Somerset Maugham story), Saturday and Sunday, February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard | 2/14/1974 | See Source »

...Patrick Jenkins, an energy minister, who declared that Britons should not turn on the lights when brushing their teeth since this function could easily be performed in the dark. In an inept demonstration of his point, Jenkins posed for the Daily Telegraph shaving by candlelight - using an electric razor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Heath Looks for a Way Out | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...Razor-Thin Profits. The terrorists' increasingly flagrant acts have finally spurred aging President Juan Peron, 78, to action. And well they should. One high American executive estimated that the kidnapings have already caused 60% of the foreign businessman in Argentina to leave the country in the past year. If the abductions continue, they could jeopardize an economy already deeply troubled by razor-thin profits and lack of capital investment by private industry. Prodded by such concerns, Peron reversed his benign neglect of Argentina's frightened foreigners and made a point of receiving the Ford vice president for Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Trial by Terror | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...Plymouth Theater with hilarity. Two British zanies, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, have released it, and these men are stark-raving bonkers. Cook, the tall one, has the imperturbable aplomb of a tightly furled umbrella. Moore, the short one, scurries round like a libidinous opossum. Employing literate wit and razor-edged satire, the pair take off on the Nativity, a homosexual Othello, Germaine Greer's theories on Women's Lib and the perils of running a two-course restaurant on the English moors. They make these and other unlikely subjects unconscionably funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Stark-Raving Bonkers | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

AFTER SUFFERING through several exasperatingly mild winters, New England skiers may be heartened to learn that Mother Nature has boldly predicted a return to the traditional Nor'easter style for this year: The wooly caterpillar, whose razor thin rings have so accurately forecasted the balmy winters which have plagued New England in the early seventies, checked in this fall with the largest and thickest rings in memory. Northeastern chipmunks and other small furry creatures are reported to have grown especially thick coats in preparation for this winter. And Clark's Trained Bears in Lincoln, N.H. has said that...

Author: By Jeff Leonard, | Title: Drifting Snow, Limited Fuel | 11/27/1973 | See Source »

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