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Richard Helms may be the closest thing to a master spy that America can claim. He was not a James Bond, roaming the world in exotic machines, wooing (and always winning) dazzling women, vanquishing villains beneath the sea and in the air. Perhaps he came closer to "M," Bond's legendary boss who sent 007 on his journeys down the world's back alleys. But even in the courtroom last week where Helms was given his $2,000 fine and suspended sentence for misleading Senators about the CIA's efforts to keep Salvador Allende Gossens from becoming...
Another catch: cities threatened by the boycott say they would gladly pass the ERA-if only it were up to them. But by and large, they claim, it is more conservative, rural voters who have held up passage of the amendment...
...umpteenth time since the end of World War II, Europe was set abuzz last week by the claimed discovery of a living child of Adolf Hitler. While most such previous assertions have been quickly discredited, the source of the latest report was Werner Maser, 55, a respected West German historian and Hitler biographer (Hitler: Legend, Myth and Reality). Maser, who plans to include the full story of his discovery in a new edition of his book later this year, has so far declined to provide full documentation for his claim. But he gave TIME some fascinating details about...
...Most societies have revolutions - or claim to," observes Historian S. Frederick Starr. "What made the Russian Revolution so important was that it made more extensive claims for itself than others had. It was the first to claim significance .aching into every corner of the globe, and that's where its mythology came from." How well does that mythology square with reality? Many different measures must be applied to judge the successes and failures of the immense, visionary and often brutal venture...
...technology into education also seem dashed. The number of high achievers on SAT tests (those scoring over 600) has been dropping. A report commissioned by the College Board found that scores of top students ?valedictorians and salutatorians in 145 high schools?showed a similar decline. Graduates who claim that they are illiterate have taken school boards to court in some states. Meanwhile, colleges complain of entering freshmen who read at the sixth-grade level...