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In a display of frugality, the colonel tools about Tripoli in a Volvo or Land Rover, but he recently publicly chided a slumdweller earning $2.80 a day for not building his family a better house. Gaddafi was married in 1969 to the daughter of an army officer, with Nasser as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBYA: The Croesus of Crisis | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

Status Quoism. Surrogates for religion, Kaufmann says, include political movements like the New Left, and schools of thought such as analytical philosophy, Marxism and psychoanalysis. Once he has become a true believer, the decidophobe has only the enjoyable decisions to make: "One has chosen the flames and the rules and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Avoiding Decisions | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

Malraux's notion of Mao as expressed in his book. He reminded Malraux both of the old Chinese emperors and "the Old Man of the Mountain." Malraux saw him as a romantic revolutionary talking about the "Sons of the People," much as the old China talked of the "Son...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Middle America to Middle Kingdom | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

Fortune Dundy-or Fortunée when the mood strikes her-is a 30-year-old virgin when she checks into Dionysus West, a jerry-built, mob-owned "swingles" trap for the 25-to-40 set. She is the kind of hysterical small-town girl that William Inge used to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Swingles Trap | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

Jimmy was a great believer in the ideal of the student-athlete, and while he devoted all of his energies to sports, he considered a player's studies to be more important. His greatest pride came in following the careers of his boys after they had graduated.

Author: By Eric Pope, | Title: Jimmy Cunniff--No One Did More For Harvard | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

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