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Informal liaisons often mature into marriage, and when they do, Yale's Coffin has found, many areas of the relationship are apt to be sounder than in less tested unions. This is especially true now that unmarried sex has largely lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teen-Age Sex: Letting the Pendulum Swing | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

...candidate for Catholic sainthood) is likely to go on; and despite new evidence like Waagenaar's, there is little prospect of a final verdict. During the war the Pontiff himself described his dilemma over Jews as "a door that no key could open." The image still seems apt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Endless Inquisition | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

Ortoli, the Corsica-born, Hanoi-raised son of a high-level French civil servant, has up to now moved steadily higher because he has proved an apt and loyal troubleshooter for Pompidou. That, presumably, is precisely the quality Pompidou desires at the head of the Common Market Commission. Britain, West Germany and Benelux fear that as successor to hearty Pan-European Sicco Mansholt, Ortoli will favor Pompidou's cautious approach to European integration, pressures for an EEC "political secretariat" in Paris, and insistence on strict independence from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL NOTES: Unswerving Gaullist | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...makes laces and other ravelly materials as easy to sew as calico. Besides an ever-expanding market of synthetics, textilers now offer fake furs, machine-washable woolens, washable crushproof velvet and even washable suede. Some materials can set the connoisseur back more than $100 a yard, but she is apt to find them a bargain. Says Manhattan Socialite Belkis Ertegun: "I have a hunger for clothes. I want something new every minute, and yet I think it's criminal to spend $6,000 a month on clothes, as I used to do. With my sewing, I only spend about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Time to Sew | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

Michael Ritchie's direction is virtuosic, but cold for my taste, and given to too many cheap Kubrickian effects. The people in his crowds are apt to be repulsive, the workers in his campaign hallways too obviously on the make. His camera movements are both straightforward and slickly calculated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Candidate | 7/21/1972 | See Source »

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