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...with another officer who, like myself, was riding a motor scooter, and cruised the area. And about fifteen minutes later, after searching up and down several likely streets, we were passing by the local Chili parlor when out walked a man who fit our description from head to toe. The complainants were summoned to the scene, made a positive identification, and the man was locked up. The satisfaction of closing a case that would almost surely have gone unsolved otherwise is enough to recharge your batteries for another hundred or more vain searches...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Up Against the Wall Erratic Glamour in a Cops and Robbers World | 3/26/1971 | See Source »

...first, many townspeople were openly suspicious of group medicine. Some disliked the extensive examinations that such a system encourages. "They did not want to be examined from head to toe, nor did they want a host of mysterious tests," recalls Dr. James Bordley III, who retired in 1967 after serving 20 years as the hospital's second director. "All they wanted was to get their medicine and get back to farming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mini-Medical Center | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

Trilogy or sixpack, it is a stunning example of pop crossbreeding: Soolaimon, for example, is a pulsating toe-tapper that Diamond terraces forcefully with one climax after another. In contrast are these tender lines from a children's chorus called Childsong that opens the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tin Pan Tailor | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

Freedom of Expression. The New York Jets' Joe Namath was once instantly recognizable with his fancy white cleats, long hair and Fu Manchu mustache. But now Joe is being upstaged by a whole host of players with twinkle-toe shoes and pageboy locks. Defensive End Tommy Hart, who started a run on white cleats among the San Francisco 49ers, says gleefully: "We're psychedelic, man!" The Chicago Cubs' Joe Pepitone, who favors lavender suede sashes and see-through paisley shirts off duty, gets his kicks on the field by wearing a fluffy hairpiece. In the National Basketball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Athlete As Peacock | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...expedition withstood when they were forced to wait out a windstorm for several days in an ice-cave near the summit. One member of the expedition died in a crevasse during the ascent; Art was lucky enough to return to Anchorage with the loss of only one toe to frostbite...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: Relaxing, Living, Taking Time To Do Things | 12/17/1970 | See Source »

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