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...crown of my career" is the way Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Marie Antoine Hubert Luns describes his new post as NATO's civilian chief. The phrasing is apt. In his 19 years as The Netherlands' ranking diplomat, Luns, 59, has worked as hard for Western European unity and cooperation with the U.S. as any statesman on the Continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Diplomat in Stocking Feet | 6/14/1971 | See Source »

...this conversation?" The rebuke silenced Groucho for only five seconds. Even when he is off the air, Cavett is on. To a waitress who brings him a well-prepared fish dish, he says: "My compliments to the ocean." Spotting Alec Guinness' name on a marquee, he instantly visualizes an apt anagram: GENUINE CLASS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dick Cavett: The Art of Show and Tell | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

...testimony of Kolansky and Moore. Their view was reinforced by the nation's chief narcotics enforcement officer, Director John Ingersoll of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, who testified that pot can be "psychologically habituating, often resulting in an antimotivational syndrome in which the user is more apt to contemplate a flower pot than try to solve his problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: More Controversy About Pot | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

...there were a single apt image for Henry Kissinger's role in Vietnam, it would be one of the global diplomat clinging to stability, maintaining order, concerned with honor and prestige. And it is in Vietnam that the Nixon-Kissinger policy has reached the limit of its logic and faced the acid test...

Author: By David Landau, | Title: Kissinger: Facing Down the Vietnamese | 5/28/1971 | See Source »

...tell that to the folks back in Winnetka or Scarsdale, how do you explain that not every documented utterance of a Kunen and Kelman, or Mungo and Gerzon altogether matches up with your own private view of the world? The already panicking adult community is not apt to have much patience with our own whining protest that we too are being equally victimized-even if only by our own more vocal peers...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Books Me and My Friends | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

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