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...Fidel Castro's onetime comrade-in-arms and a quixotically unsuccessful exporter of revolution in Latin America, the late Ernesto ("Che") Guevara is a Marxist cult figure of high standing. Last week his chief legacy was a hot capitalist property and the object of hectic legal maneuvering in London. As the result of a legal action by the Bolivian government, a British judge upheld an injunction on Sotheby's auction house, preventing the sale of the original diaries of the Argentine-born guerrilla leader. The court order will allow Bolivia to continue its efforts to recover the documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: A Battle for Che's Legacy | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

Greetings Dearest Mother, I hope you have not been believing all those nasty reports about the capitalist beauty pageant here in Miami. Of course, the messy dish they call "tacos" does not compare with your kielbasa, but I can't believe that is why some of the girls got sick and had to go to the hospital. And I must admit that poor Miss Sri Lanka left early; she was so homesick. I missed Poland too, but oh how I wish you could have seen the wonderfully decadent Western luxuries bestowed on the new Miss Universe, a sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 23, 1984 | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

Executive changes have also roiled the company. Two months ago Chairman Donald Lloyd-Jones quit over differences with directors. He was replaced by Ven ture Capitalist J.R.K. Tinkle, who last week presided over the all-night executive session that grounded the carrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down on the Fourth of July | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

Palmer tells us that the song Satisfaction "works as a classic rock single," but on another level "asserts that tensions and frustrations are inherent in a capitalist society with consumerist values." He concludes...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Pop Slop | 6/29/1984 | See Source »

Donald S. Shepard '69 left Harvard and entered the Harvard-Africa Volunteer Program. He wanted to teach high school in socialist Tanzania but was denied a work permit. When his work permit was denied--he believes because he came from capitalist America--Shepard says he realized that "unbridled idealism was not what the world was looking for," that reformers need to work within existing organizations that have their own rules and procedures. After the experience. "I went into less idealistic, less grassroots sort of activity," he adds...

Author: By Mark E. Feinberg, | Title: Idealists meet the real world | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

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