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...Caudillo spent his last years in public life trying to keep a lid on Spain's seething political cauldron. The nation's conservatives reacted nervously not only to the death of Admiral Carrero Blanco but to events in neighboring Portugal. In the wake of the Lisbon coup, the army, the dreaded militia known as the Guardia Civil and the Cabinet were safely installed in conservative hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: FINIS: 36 YEARS OF IRON RULE | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

...short, it seems that Jencks is too quickly discarding the all-too-plausible theory that the admission of the most aggressive, the most ambitious among the lower classes into the ranks of the privileged effectively and purposely "lets the steam off" the social cauldron...

Author: By Eric Davin, | Title: Christopher Jencks: Does He Lack The Courage Of His Convictions? | 11/19/1974 | See Source »

...inside, Slocum is a boiling cauldron of some moon-pulled witch's brew. He knows only dimly of that "something" which makes him fearful, disgusting, and self-loathing. Superficially, he maintains a calm indifference and manipulative diplomacy. He is so much like a chameleon that he acquires the characteristics of persons he's dealing with, including a stutter. For Heller, he is the conglomerate image of corporate man in America, at once the symbol of upward and downward mobility. "I ascend," he says, "like a Condor, while falling to pieces...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Connive To Survive, Stay Alive Til Five | 10/11/1974 | See Source »

...among planets: a great ball of whirling gases and liquids with no solid surface. Its outermost 600 miles consist of an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium gases laced with clouds composed of crystals of ammonia, ammonia hydrosulfide and water ice. The rest of the planet is mostly a seething cauldron of liquid hydrogen, except perhaps for a small, rocky, possibly iron-bearing core. Scientists suspect that Jupiter's extreme interior heat-about 54,000° F. at the core-may be left over from the planet's creation nearly 5 billion years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: By Jove, It's Hydrogen | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...city of Bucharest was hit last week by a population explosion and a heat wave that turned the ordinarily tranquil, temperate Rumanian capital into a cauldron of international contention. Gathered in Bucharest were 1,100 delegates from 141 countries for the United Nations World Population Conference. It was the largest intergovernmental meeting in history, convoked to devise ways of remedying the soaring overpopulation that is straining declining world food reserves. Yet in spite of the gravity of the issue, the sweltering delegates in Bucharest's airless, ovenlike Palace of the Republic seemed motivated more by national pride and ideology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POPULATION: Cauldron of Contention | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

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