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...manner of subjects. A mild and white-haired figure, married to his longtime research assistant, Veronica Boulter (his 33-year first marriage ended in divorce in 1946), Toynbee frequently visited U.S. universities and once commented that the things he liked best about the U.S. were Bing Crosby and peanut butter. Not all his views were so benign. When he was 80, he declared in the autobiographical Experiences that the U.S. (in Viet Nam) and Israel (in Palestine) were partners in colonialism. As recently as last year, he wrote in the Observer that fuel shortages might well lead to authoritarian governments...
What Rebel Leader Vataha did not mention was a fistful of bread-and-butter grievances that were the underlying force in the walkout. The most celebrated is the controversial Rozelle rule, which restricts a player's freedom to switch teams. At present, anyone who has completed his contractual obligations with one team can sell his services elsewhere, but if he does, his new owner must compensate the old one with property (player or draft choice) of equal value. If the teams cannot strike a bargain, N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle sets the terms himself, and the players claim he always...
...1950s the CIA began experimenting with saxitoxin at Fort Detrick, Md., where it also carried out the notorious LSD experiments that led to, among other things, the long hushed-up death of Biochemist Frank Olson (TIME, July 21). Researchers took contaminated butter clams and distilled the poison from them through a costly process. According to sources close to Church's panel, the CIA used saxitoxin in suicide pills for its own agents (U2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers had one, but chose to pass it up) and had it on hand to eliminate troublesome guard dogs when breaking into embassies...
...hydrolab operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Apart from a malfunction that sent the lab's temperature soaring to 90° at one point, the amateur aquanauts had little trouble adjusting to their watery environment, or to their spartan diet of soup, fruit, peanut butter and crackers. "Unlike the space program 15 years ago, the facilities already exist for expanded underwater research, and thus it can be done with a minimum of expense," enthused Weicker after bubbling to the surface. "Almost anyone can work down there -as my doing it proves...
Since then, the café society portraits which now provide Warhol's bread and butter do not pretend to be anything else. To see Warhol entering a drawing room, pale eyes blinking in that pocked bun of a face, surrounded by his Praetorian Guard of chittering ingenues, is to realize that things do turn out well after all. The right level has been found. New York-not to speak of Rome, Lugano, Paris, Tehran and SkorpiÓs-needed a society portraitist. The empty angel of the '60s has effortlessly become the Boldini...