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The nation has grown almost accustomed to watching universities shut down in protest. Now, museums.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Suspension of Art | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

The two Cabinet members who have publicly taken issue with Nixon are Hickel and George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Both are ex-Governors accustomed to command, and both are frustrated by Nixon's isolation behind the palace guard of Assistants John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman. Romney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Widening Cracks in Nixon's Cabinet | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

? Settle for less than total victory over inflation. The present 6% rate of inflation is intolerable, but the U.S. in the long run may have to learn to live with a somewhat higher rate than citizens have been accustomed to think of as acceptable. Members of TIME'S Board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Economy: Crisis of Confidence | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

It was like a clenched fist at a garden party. Discreet ads presented their accustomed celebration of the good life. Rolls-Royces at $31,600. Bracelets at $1,200 each ("Two will give you a beautiful necklace"). The cartoons included the customary chuckle at suburbia. White space set off John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An Act of Usurpation | 5/25/1970 | See Source »

Originally built by Bell Telephone Laboratories for installation in large booths at the New York World's Fair in 1964, the phones were designed to permit whole families at a time to tell the folks back home how much they were enjoying their visit. In the new, normal-size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Look, Ma Bell, No Hands | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

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