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College students, hard-pressed to stay abreast of their required reading, have long considered TIME an essential way of keeping on top of current events. Today more than 3,000,000 students read TIME every week, and for a growing number of them, their involvement with the magazine does not stop there. Last year almost 1,000 students on campuses around the world earned pocket money and gained business experience selling Time Inc. publications at special college rates...
...hail! The pregnant Blue Bird of Happiness has nested in the '70s! Who wants this finely feathered fowl, anyway? Will it be cheaper for the traveler? No, ticket taxes will go up. More comfortable? No, four abreast instead of three. Will it be faster? Yes, if you don't have any bag gage. Who will benefit from it? Not the American traveler. The 747 [Jan. 19] is one pregnant bird that should have used the Pill...
...opposite ends of the dining hall, and Alan Heimert squirting oatmeal on his tie. Heimert has already read the morning CRIMSON ("always save the ones with my pictures in them"), and is explaining James Q. Wilson to a clutch of cautiously admiring clubbies. The clubbies like to keep abreast of developments as long as it doesn't involve reading. They keep the Master primed (if priming be needed) with frequently inserted "aouh yes's" and "I know's" of about twelve syllables each. The clubbies like to eat toast for breakfast because it's such fun to pronounce...
...Israel's closely knit, family-oriented society, its people often stay abreast of the war by word of mouth. When the Israelis captured and carried off an entire Egyptian radar station on Dec. 26, half of Tel Aviv knew about it within 24 hours. "My wife heard about it at the hairdresser's," an Israeli officer recalls. "My daughter heard about it at her dancing school." But the government did not confirm the story to newsmen for more than a week, and has been similarly slow or suppressive with other information for foreigners...
...museum's most controversial acquisition in the last decade. No one in Manhattan's ingrown art world elicits such studied veneration or unquotable outrage. One reason is that Henry has taken on the almost incompatible tasks of scout and judge. As scout, he strives to keep abreast, mingling familiarly with the most avant of the avantgardists. Huffing and puffing up countless stairs to artists' studios by day, wining and dining with their patrons by night, he is equally at home in the scruffy lofts of Canal Street and the elegant appointments of the Dakota...