Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the editors of TIME brought together seven foreign policy experts, some with long years of public service (see box), for a wide-ranging discussion on the upheavals in the crisis area and on what the U.S. could do to strengthen its influence there. The experts found signs of alarming weakness in supposedly friendly lands, and they found some encouraging elements in countries supposedly alienated from the U.S. They were convinced that the currents of change were running more swiftly than the Administration believed, and they were afraid, some more than others, that the U.S. was failing...
...others" interfere in Iran, he promised, there would be "serious consequences." His charge: "In the Middle East, in Southeast Asia and elsewhere in the world, we will stand by our friends-we will honor our commitments-and we will protect the vital interests of the United States" (see box). That sounded impressive, though any President would presumably say much the same thing, but it is not easy to apply such traditional principles to the complexities of international politics...
...Kagon, 58, Marvin's lawyer, agreed to try the case solely before a judge, there is no jury for Mitchelson to play to, which is a pity. With his I, Claudius haircut and natty suits, Mitchelson easily upstages the Hollywood star. The lawyer leans menacingly over the witness box, especially when the actor is pinioned on the stand, and then checks out the rows of newsmen as he stalks back to his chair. Although he is outshone by Mitchelson, Marvin worries that the fact he is a star may work against him, no matter how the judge rules. Referring...
...generation of working-class kids not only cut off from the social mainstream but disaffected from the smug, cushy sounds of most contemporary pop. Stateside, the audience is different: students, trendy punks, artists and camp followers who cruise the punk periphery like tourists looking to score a season box for the apocalypse. No wonder that, after only the first American date, Joe Strummer was already sounding a little homesick...
This will be the last time anyone gets a chance to win the Bermuda Shoot, so make sure you buy a program and put my name on the entry blank before you drop it in the shoot box...