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P.G. Wodehouse has reached the ripe age of ninety, and according to the list Simon and Schuster give us. Jeeves and the Tie That Binds is his seventy-fifth book. He started writing at about the same time as Joyce or, say, about the time Mark Twain died. The dust...

Author: By Richard Bowker, | Title: With the Rarity of a Performing Flea | 1/12/1972 | See Source »

What do Kareem Abdul Jabbar, George Meany, Pablo Picasso and IBM have in common? Answer: their tendency to dominate their fields. And none is more dominant than IBM. The Jolly Gray Giant, as irreverent competitors call it, accounted for almost two-thirds of global computer revenues in 1971, and has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMPUTERS: Challenging the Jolly Gray Giant | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

If we remain together, vote as a bloc, and stay out of the politico stuff, we will have both political parties bending over backward to get our vote.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 20, 1971 | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

A thoroughly practical activist with a lawyer's talent for bending the System to his advantage, Connally, 54, has become one of the strong men of the Nixon Cabinet since he joined it last February. Although a Democrat and former L.BJ. man, Texan Connally is increasingly mentioned as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Putting on the Freeze | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

Journeys by presidential assistants and reporters notwithstanding, it will still be some time before sweating, camera-clutching hordes of American tourists start shuttling across the Hong Kong border to begin the already standard Canton-Shanghai-Peking run. But the prospects for future tours are mind-bending: "Swim the Yangtze in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Half-Baedeker For China Tourists | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

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