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...immaturity, ten or twelve male students flashed "rating cards" (one to ten, based on looks) at the women coming in to dinner. These well-dressed "gentlemen" also flashed cards with insulting pictures and comments at the women who did not meet with their approval. Those who did win the "seal of approval" were greeted with flashes of "Puss in Boots," "orgasm," and other equally flattering endearments. The whole affair was very offensive to almost everyone; it was certainly very embarassing to the women coming into the dining room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Immaturity | 1/26/1977 | See Source »

...Most Southerners think Carter will find the right approach to unemployment and inflation, the two problems that head most lists of priorities. They also share his views on cutting Government waste and overhauling the tax system. Said Atlanta Artist Charles Mitchell, who carved the 5-ft.-wide mahogany presidential seal that will hang behind Carter as he watches the Inaugural parade: Carter's hit on a lot of things that I've been fussing about for years, and now he's trying to do something. The commentators all say it's not practical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The South A Show-Me Attitude | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

Eden was similarly precocious in politics: he won a seat in Parliament at 26, became Lord Privy Seal at 34, Minister for League of Nations Affairs at 37 and Foreign Secretary less than a year later. As Foreign Secretary from 1935 to 1938, he raced to get ahead of the swiftly moving events in a radically changing Europe: the resurgence of Germany under Hitler, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), and the Spanish civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Eden: The Loyal Adjutant | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...Peru, Indiana, and bless it, Kaplan, Louisiana, hums of versation rising from cafeteria tables like locust clouds, and if you poll each little bug here's what he'll say: "The first time I saw Fred Astaire dance I was transfixed...after the first time I saw the Seventh Seal I couldn't win a chess game for a month...the first time I saw Abbott and Costello I nearly busted...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: The Thirty-Six or Thirty-Seven Greatest Movies of All Time | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

...alternative ski bottoms. The first option is a pair of inlaid Mohair strips which allow you to glide forwards but provide traction when you push off on one ski to slide forward on the other. This is the first commercial waxless ski and is America's improvement on tying seal skins to the bottom of each...

Author: By Grover G. Norquist, | Title: Why Ski Cross-Country? | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

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