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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shiftless Schemers. The Japanese bear no grudge against Pinocchio himself, who in Collodi's tale is afflicted with disabilities enough before achieving his dream of becoming a flesh-and-blood boy. Their objections focus on the book's two ne'er-do-wells, the Fox and the Cat, shiftless schemers posing as mendicants who are lame (the Fox) and blind (the Cat), while merrily fleecing the gullible young puppet. By the end of the tale, the Cat is truly sightless and minus a paw, while the Fox does not fare too well either?he ends up thin, almost hairless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Nose Out of Joint | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...Iran has purchased large quantities of some of the most sophisticated equipment in the U.S. inventory including the F-14 Tom Cat Fighter and the DD993 modified Spruance Class Destroyer. The F-14 system is so complicated that the United States Navy is having major difficulty keeping it operational. Iran's Spruance Class Destroyer will be even more sophisticated than those being procured by the U.S. Navy...

Author: By David B. Mccosker, | Title: Iran-Another Vietnam? | 1/5/1977 | See Source »

...Touch Not the Cat, Stewart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...neutron star stage, crushing its matter into a volume so small that it virtually ceases to exist. The gravity of its tiny remnant is so great that nothing, not even light, can escape from it. All external evidence of its presence disappears, and the star, like the Cheshire cat, vanishes, leaving behind only the grin of its disembodied gravity. Anything that fell into such a "black hole" would quite literally be crushed out of existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STARS Where Life Begins | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...Sleeping Murder, Christie (1 last week) 2-Trinity, Uris (2) 3-Storm Warning, Higgins (3) 4-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (4) 5-Blue Skies, No Candy, Greene (5) 6-Raise the Titanic!, Cussler (7) 7-Slapstick, Vonnegut (6) 8-The Users, Haber (8) 9-Ceremony of the Innocent, Caldwell (10) 10-Dolores, Susann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

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