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She was followed and photographed everywhere, from the top of the Great Wall of China to the high plains of Peru, but in many ways Pat Nixon as First Lady was even more of an enigma than her husband. She was a profoundly private woman whose true feelings were known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: PAT NIXON: STEEL AND SORROW | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

The whole composition changed. With a rending of the whole pattern of being, a ship was received by the horizon. An abdication was signed. A whole universe was thrown away. A ship came in sight, to throw out the universe that had guarded its absence... We are too accustomed to...

Author: By Robert W. Keefer, | Title: Mishima's Last Testament | 8/6/1974 | See Source »

Pub patrons in Australia's Queensland have long been accustomed to pass the time by tossing burning cigarette butts out the window, or Ping Pong balls, or whatever other small objects come to hand. Outside, likely as not, sits an all-purpose mini garbage-disposal unit called Bufo marinus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Bufo Plague | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

In two centuries of American politics, there have been only three women Governors, and all three-Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson of Texas and Lurleen Wallace of Alabama-followed in their husbands' footsteps. Congresswoman Ella Grasso, 55, of Windsor Locks, Conn., is not accustomed to following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Toehold in Connecticut | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

The bill establishing the independent legal services corporation is currently legal services corporation is currently lying on President Nixon's desk. If he signs it--as he almost surely will--the cutting edge of legal services for the poor will lose much of its bite. Funds for both the Harvard...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Legal Services: The Cutting Edge Is Blunted | 7/23/1974 | See Source »

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