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...seem frightened by the prospect of their own moderation-if it can be called moderation to take back land you lost in a war you started." Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, after a Knesset debate over his handling of the Palestinian attack on Ma'alot, stomped out of the Chamber, muttering audibly "I'm fed up with this government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Hard Week for a Miracle Worker | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...because its proposed 1974 budget allegedly failed to deal effectively with Canada's roaring inflation. Minutes later, when House Speaker Lucien Lamoureux announced the tally-137 votes in favor of the motion to 123 against*- opposition M.P.s exploded in a roar of delight and littered the green-carpeted chamber with a blizzard of tossed papers. Next day Governor General Jules Leger dissolved Parliament, as Canada's four political parties and 13 million voters geared up for a new national election on July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: New Challenge for Trudeau | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...intelligent, vehement film, Love and Anarchy begins with dim promise. A young boy sits on a chamber pot in the bedroom of an Italian farmhouse. In the kitchen, his parents talk politics with an old friend. They are poor people, and what the little boy hears is the distillation of years full of want and struggle. The political talk is angry, what might be called, at a more comfortable distance, radical. Finally, unable to control his curiosity any longer, the little boy shouts into the other room, "Mommy, what's an anarchist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bordello Politics | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...Administration made some pleas for restraint. In a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, President Nixon warned businessmen and labor leaders that "if the fires of inflation continue to burn too strongly, demand for controls will come up again." John Dunlop, head of the Cost of Living Council, sent telegrams to more than 200 companies that had signed agreements to keep prices down in exchange for an early release from controls. He reminded them that the Administration considered their commitments to be still binding. The force of his warning was somewhat weakened by the fact that un der present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROLS: Bulge After Death | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...original Swiss system, the flywheel (housed in a vacuum chamber to reduce friction from the air) will be used to produce electricity for the vehicle's 150-h.p. motor rather than to drive the wheels directly. If the flywheel's speed drops below its normal operational minimum (6,000 r.p.m.), the motor can be operated on power from overhead electric lines. Simultaneously, this power source-or in the future, underground transformers-can also be used to spin up the flywheel again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Big Wheel | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

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