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...there, cutes!/ Put on your dancing boots/ and come dance with me. This is the call that frustrated Tap Dancer Barbara Walters had been waiting for. She got it finally last week when she filled in for Johnny Carson on the Tonight show. Guest Gene Kelly graciously appraised Barbara's potential. After a few turns round the set, Barbara asked Gene to check her waltz clog (a tap step) because "I can't click my heels together properly." In no time Gene was showing Barbara how to tap and it was clear that Barbara's latent ambitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 17, 1975 | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

...Wall appears to have some cash, and can get cheaper rates since they're showing on a small scale and mostly short films and some free movies. It looks from the lists as though they screen Eastern European and some radical films (a biography of Mao Tap-Tung by David Wolper ended yesterday), and their principle--especially for the children's movies--is "non-violent and non-sexist." During next week's Washington's Birthday school vacation, Mario Thomas's Emmy award-winning Free to Be...You and Me will be shown daily for $.50. On the regular program beginning...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: THE SCREEN | 2/13/1975 | See Source »

With a 4-2 record in the Ivies, Harvard will be immediately challenged to improve upon that mark when the cagers tap off against Brown tonight at the IAB. The Bruins' slate stands at 5-2, and a Crimson triumph would provide the needed momentum for next week's crucial encounter with the Ivy giant, Penn...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Cagers Humble Elis, 81-64 for Fourth Ivy Win | 2/8/1975 | See Source »

...back into the pockets of taxpayers, some money that Americans otherwise would pour into the treasuries of Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria, Canada and the Arab nations. Moreover, the U.S. must hold down imports to free itself of the threat of political blackmail from foreign suppliers who could shut off the tap at any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RECESSION: Ford's Risky Plan Against Slumpflation | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

...disgrace is one of the most severe any man can go through." But he thought that "equitable sentencing" ought to be a post-Watergate goal of the judicial system. "Take Dick Kleindienst," he said, referring to the former Attorney General. "He made a successful plea bargain, received a tap on the back. Yet he lied to a Senate committee when he was chief law-enforcement officer of the U.S. Dwight Chapin [a former Nixon aide], on the other hand, was scared, unfamiliar with the law, but he faces ten to 30 months for two far less important lies [about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: For Three, Sufficient Punishment | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

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