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...Seven were hauled into court on what is at best a specious charge of what should be an unconstitutional law. They defended themselves as anyone would in a kangaroo court, and in the larger sense they won. As long as the Establishment continues to defend the morally bankrupt principles of the status quo, there will be armies of Sevens to put in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 23, 1970 | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

Bennett called the General Motors investment in South Africa "wholesome." If American companies withdraw, he said, South Africa will go bankrupt and "both black and white will go down the drain...

Author: By James M. Fallows and Scott W. Jacobs, S | Title: GMProxy Fight May Point Way To Wider Investment Questions | 3/12/1970 | See Source »

Every technique that falls into the hands of these bankrupt meatheads is overused and thereby cheapened. They haven't the taste to restrict their expressive means to their slight ends, which would give us at least well-crafted films. By lending directors the license of artists the current "aesthetic" prevents them from even learning their craft competently. Francis Ford Coppola is praised for sloppy work while Vincent Canby makes snide cracks about an artist like Douglas Sirk...

Author: By Mike PROKOSCI I, | Title: The Moviegoer The Damned at the Cheri Theater | 3/4/1970 | See Source »

...game called Ec-oplany. In it, players assume the role of finance ministers and try to outwit each other at running a national economy. By rolling dice, each participant is tossed from recessions to failing harvests to baby booms. Unless he learns quickly, a novice will find himself strikebound, bankrupt or on the verge of civil war in no time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Games Theory | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...conniving p.r. flack for a top political candidate, helps support his father-primarily because of the embarrassment the old man could cause by showing up in Washington. Freeman's cousin Gerrish, a money-mad but bumbling lawyer, acts as an unwilling buffer between the members of this emotionally bankrupt group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Charge-O-Maniac | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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