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...considers himself more or less monogamous. But, according to the new scientific theory, he is not really, and he was never intended to be. His hormones urge him to copulate with his sisters and daughters, just as all other mammals generally do. But his cortex tells him to barter his females to strangers for political advantage, and he listens. He would like to murder his father, but this natural impulse is cunningly suppressed: one day he will be the old man. He feels as strong an affinity for his buddy as for his wife-or even his mother, once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Ethology: That Animal That Is Man | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

Cure: Love. By happenstance, Chuck discovers "a way to be thought better of. The key to his modest pad may unlock an executive suite for him. Commuting senior executives with one night of illicit in-town love on their agendas barter promises of future advancement for the use of his apartment. One night Chuck finds the girl (Jill O'Hara) he worships in the bed he rarely makes. She has taken an overdose of sleeping pills after discovering the perfidy of the company Don Juan. Cure: the love of a good -well, fairly good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Mediocrity into Success | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...that for generations has been inherent in the Electoral College system. Had none of the candidates gained the requisite 270-vote Electoral College majority, the nation would have drifted in dangerous uncertainty for weeks or even months. The possible scenario has become amply familiar. Wallace might have tried to barter his electors for concessions from one of the major candidates between Nov. 5 and Dec. 16, when the electors will cast their ballots. If he failed, the selection of the next President might have been thrown to the House of Representatives, where another deadlock might well have resulted. Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: Poor Prospects for Reform | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

Charles Street, at the foot of Beacon Hill, is the heart of the hippie community's social life. One end of Charles skirts Boston Common, which used to be the community's commercial center for the sale and barter of drugs. The business has been forcibly de-centralized since last August, when 200 to 300 hippies who had been eating, sleeping and trading on the Common were challenged by a midnight curfew. To protest, they staged sleepins, and there were several nights of rioting with police before the hippies grew tired and scattered to other living places...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Boston Hips In The Off-Season | 10/23/1968 | See Source »

Journeying to the Soviet capital, Czechoslovak Premier Oldřich Cernick put his signature on a new seven-year economic agreement that abolishes any hope that Czechoslovakia might be able to seek funds and know-how in the West to revitalize its disastrously outmoded industry. The agreement was another barter deal, similar to earlier ones that ruinously shortchanged the Czechoslovaks; they must deliver trucks, heavy pipe and other manufactured goods to the Russians in return for raw materials. In addition, both countries will cooperate in the construction of a long pipeline to carry natural gas from the Soviet fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Where the Captives Forge Their Own Chains | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

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