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The development will renovate a 28.5-acre plot on the shore of the Detroit River. Now occupied by decrepit commercial buildings, the area by 1980 will contain a soaring hotel, four office towers, apartment buildings and retail stores. To design the project, Ford has hired Architect John Portman, a vehement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Better Idea for Detroit | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

But is he, as Nixon has demanded of all his court nominees, a "strict constructionist," a believer in limiting courts to the letter of the law? "I don't categorize myself," says Powell. "I think of myself basically as a lawyer with a wide spectrum of experience. My views may...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The President's Two Nominees | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

It is true that Taiwan is a dictatorship--an incredibly prosperous one. But its feeble attempts at repression seem absurd beside Mainland China's genocide, mass executions and theocratic thought control. As a believer in individualism and responsibility I find your ideas nauseating. Whoever wrote them should crawl back under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MATTER OF DICTATORSHIP | 10/30/1971 | See Source »

"The truth of a family is like the truth of an ocean, a series of movements in which themes occur and recur," the author writes. It seems particularly true of adolescence. Urie informs Zeb, an ardent believer, that there is no God, that Socrates was a better man than Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Women | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

Beneath the patina of the published papers, other images form from those turbulent days. Early on, there was the alert, trim Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara sitting at his huge Pershing desk, the believer of 1963, the man who thought it could be done and who kept saying "Things are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Pentagon Papers: The Secret War | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

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