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Hashish, according to a character in The Stiff Upper Lip, "is the biggest growth product in France." A runner-up might be basketball, le basket, which the French have discovered with delight and ineptitude. As Private Detective B.F. (for Benjamin Franklin) Cage soon finds out in his third adventure sponsored by Peter Israel, the two trades can be slimily and bloodily involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skuldruggery and High Technology | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...cohesiveness in our community. You seem to genuinely relish your semesterly denunciations of Black students before the public. You are not proud enough of you, convictions to bring your criticisms to the Black student body, yet attempt to shame us in the public view by treating us as caged animals whose behavior can be pointed at through cage bars. Well, sir, it won't work. We Black students are too proud of who we are to allow ourselves to be taken in by shallow, uninformed criticism. You make us laugh as we read the contents of your article...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Response to Kilson | 10/21/1978 | See Source »

...bags filled with Jason's food-a solution of amino acids, water, sugar, salt, potassium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, vitamins and trace elements. A battery-powered miniature pump zippered into another vest pocket propels the solution through a tube implanted in Jason's skin midway between his rib cage and navel. The tube runs up his chest to the base of his neck, where it threads into a vein leading to the superior vena cava, the large vessel that finally returns blood from the head and neck to the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life Jacket | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...opposes him is to be supported." Adds a former U.S. diplomat: "If you were in the Kremlin, you would say to yourself, what do we do? You strike at the most vulnerable point, and that point is the Persian Gulf. In effect, you rattle the Shah's bird cage. You rattle it hard. This is what they are doing. But let's not get dishonest. Let's not also say that everybody is a Communist. That's not necessarily true. This is power politics we're playing here today. This is not ideology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Shah's Divided Land | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...shark cage while the other quietly plunged into the sea with little protection. But neither Diana Nyad, 28, nor Stella Taylor, 46, completed her marathon swim last week. Nyad was thwarted in her Cuba-to-Key West swim by 5-ft. to 8-ft. waves and painful jellyfish stings. As for Taylor, she headed off for Florida from the Bahamas, but was forced to stop because of strong currents. Said she: "It was a great time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 28, 1978 | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

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