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Unfortunately, no one has yet discovered a penicillin for the infection of world inflation?a swift miracle cure. But there are practical steps that could be taken to slow price rises. They are unpopular and slow-acting, but nonetheless essential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: Seeking Antidotes to a Global Plague | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...fourth line consisted mainly of Kevin Burke, Phelps Swift and Paul Haley but Wiz Wyatt and Dave Gauthier also had a few turns on the ice. There is no question in anybody's mind that the fourth line was one of the key factors to the team's success...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Hockey 1973-74: The Rally Falls Short | 3/19/1974 | See Source »

Waiting Jet. Reprisal was swift. The bishop was at home brushing his teeth when police telephoned. "Please prepare yourself for a trip within half an hour," he was told. A jet was waiting at Bilbao's airport to fly the bishop and his vicar general to Rome. Before the government could move, the Spanish hierarchy rallied behind Añoveros. In Bilbao, priests, nuns and lay people by the thousands signed petitions and flocked to see him. "He is a good man," said one elderly Basque. "Good men are rare, and he must stay." Pope Paul interrupted a Lenten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Bishop and The Basques | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...Crimson came back with three goals in the first half of the final period to go ahead 5-3. Carr completed his hat trick by beating B.U. goalie Pat Devlin twice within 42 seconds, scoring at 2:12 and 2:54, and then fourth-line winger Phelps Swift tallied at 9:20 after taking a Kevin Burke pass...

Author: By E.p. Eggert, | Title: B.U. Downs Skaters, 7-5, in NCAA Consolation | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...them are fat, all sharply etched and ornately dressed. Kevin Kline is a fine Macheath, and the rest of the cast is pretty uniformly good, too, although it's hard to understand a few of the actresses when they start to sing. John Gay, the friend of Pope and Swift who wrote the play, scattered popular ballads and songs through it like arias, with new and more appropriate lyrics, so that Macheath comments on his sentence to a variant of "Greensleeves...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Repertory With a Sting | 3/15/1974 | See Source »

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