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...mischievous humor. The record is a maudlin appeal to an erring daughter, which Linkletter recorded with his own daughter Diane last April. "Come back, come back," trembles Linkletter's voice. "I gotta do what's right for me," explains Diane. "We love you," says Art, with a choke in his voice. "Call collect." Originally the property of Word Incorporated, specialists in religious records, We Love You and Dad were not immediately released. But when Diane embarked on an LSD trip and leaped to her death from a window last fall, Capitol Records bought the record and swiftly released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Profits of Tragedy | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

Robert Penn Warren makes the melodramatic most of a bird-beaked Kentucky-frontier mother and her two sons who in 1811 actually gave refuge to Audubon, then plotted to murder him for his gold watch. The three rogues are thwarted and promptly hanged. As they choke on their ropes-bunglers at death as at life-Warren's Audubon unsentimentally identifies with them. In the all-embracing fraternity of failure, Audubon in some sense shares their guilt and their punishment. Now as reconciled to man as he has all along been to nature, Audubon goes on to his own fulfillment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adam in the Wilderness | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...catastrophic events it produces in 1973. But more than that. Sons of Darkness is about the rights human beings have and the wrongs which they suffer. Its fundamental message is that when a society, no matter what its political structure or philosophy, so oppresses a people as to choke off their life-force, those people have no choice but to resort to violence. The author contends that given the unwillingness of America to let black men be men blacks have no alternative to using violence-restricted violence, hopefully, with a definite purpose: but if that fails then large-scale guerilla...

Author: By Lee A. Daniels, | Title: From the Shelf Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light 279 pages; Little, Brown and Co.; $5.95 | 10/6/1969 | See Source »

...Kwon Do the student learns to punch, chop, spear, twist, choke and block in self-defense, according to Dongpil Kim, who will teach the class. It "employs a full range of body use from the graceful movements of ballet to the power of weapons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe To Offer Course In Tae Kwon Do Defense | 9/30/1969 | See Source »

Great factories sent pollutants billowing into the good Minnesota air, subdivisions sprawled over the pleasant landscape, delays mounted at the airport, and traffic began to choke the highways. Most shocking of all, the water table was becoming tainted by thousands of leaky backyard cesspools. Even this problem, which posed an imminent threat to health, seemed beyond resolution. For four straight biennial sessions, the state legislature tried to form a huge metropolitan sewer district. But suburbanites felt city dwellers were going to take advantage of them-and vice versa-so the bill failed to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Government: Minnesota Model | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

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