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...P.L.A. soldiers are volunteers serving two years. They receive only about $3 to $4 a month in spending money. The division, in accordance with the words of Chairman Mao, produces its own food. We watch P.L.A. men working to process soy beans into soy sauce, bean paste, vinegar and bean curd. The division also grows its own rice and raises 900-odd pigs. Everything fits into its objective of achieving self-reliance and, as Vice Commander Keng puts it, "lightening the burden of the locality." There is a very basic quality about the whole operation. The necessities of life with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Excursions in Mao's China | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

Since the introduction of the magnetometer, an anti-skyjacking gadget that looks like a pair of mechanical bean poles, the most intriguing refuse is found in washrooms and wastebaskets at major airports. Says Jay Adsen, FAA security chief at Los Angeles International Airport: "It's really amazing, the things people carry around with them." Amazing indeed-and more than a little disturbing. At Chicago's O'Hare Airport, federal marshals have scooped up knives, handguns, tear-gas guns and stolen credit cards. In Los Angeles, officials found in a boarding area a jacket containing a .22 revolver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fly Me--If You're Clean | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...them competently, but that is hardly worth two hours of anybody's time. Most of the rest of the company (Olympia Dukakis, Helen Verbit, Ron Carey) overact shamelessly and uninterestingly, although Louis Zorich, as Pandora's gallivanting father, has a couple of hilariously sleazy moments. Robert B. Bean directed, apparently by remote control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ethnic Cartoons | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

SYLVIA SUE BERGMAN Bean Station, Tenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1971 | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

...kicked out just to prove that the Red slogan "the American imperialist is a paper tiger and bean-curd tiger" is true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 22, 1971 | 11/22/1971 | See Source »

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