Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TWENTY years ago, TIME began using color photographs regularly, -and our color staff has been actively celebrating the birthday. Last week's issue carried color pictures from China, the first in any U.S. magazine after Peking admitted the American table tennis team. This week we have nine color pages-on China, in the Art section and with the cover story on the Broadway hit Follies...
...people angry. Grinspoon ridicules researchers who perform studies on biased samples (for example, taking subjects from mental institutions instead of a cross-section of the population), and he derides government agencies such as the National Institute of Mental Health which propagate ignorance about drugs. (Remember the "Happy 21st Birthday Johnny" ads that showed a 30-year-old Harvard grad with make-up as a supposed speed-freak...
...weeks, Haitians had been wo dering whether ailing President for Life Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier would make his scheduled 64th birthday appearance on the palace balcony and prove to one and all that he was indeed alive and well. Last week the moment came: Papa Doc did not show. In his stead stood his bull-necked son, Jean-Claude, 19, whom the dictator named as his successor earlier this year. Many of the 50,000 assembled Haitians, who were kept 70 yards from the palace, did not seem to realize that fact. As Jean-Claude saluted again and again...
...find that I like cold countries now," said Newscaster Lowell Thomas last week as he celebrated his 79th birthday. "The heat takes it out of you." The heat isn't all that does it. At Miami's Crandon Park Zoo, where he was visiting Mohan, a 1,500-lb. rhinoceros that he had helped to capture, Thomas turned to talk to the keeper while feeding his rhino friend some greens. Mohan munched the greens and went right on munching until he was lunching on Thomas' trousers. "I was lucky," said Lowell. "If he had got hold...
...Foreign Affairs will celebrate its fiftieth birthday next year, and will undergo a change of editors at the same time. Hamilton Fish Armstrong, a 1916 graduate of Princeton who holds an honorary doctorate from Harvard, will be replaced, after forty-eight years in his post, by William P. Bundy, Yale '39, the former deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for International Affairs, now a consultant to M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies. This change of management at the upper level is indicative of the criticism most frequently made of Foreign Affairs: that its only function is to serve as an apologist...