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Although scenes like these occur in all three Dirty Harry films, it seems they lead to a different end in The Enforcer. Dirty Harry and Magnum Force were unadulterated vehicles for themes like "might makes right" and "violence is a great deterrent to crime." The Enforcer, however, can be interpreted...

Author: By Jay Yeager, | Title: How The Bad Guys Finally Won | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

Wrote Carter about Rickover in Why Not the Best?: "He was unbelievably hard-working and competent, and he demanded total dedication from his subordinates. We feared and respected him and strove to please him ... The absence of a comment was his compliment; he never hesitated to criticize severely if a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: JIMMY'S MIXED SIGNALS | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

The undersigned, all of whom have worked over the years to assist in the development of the minority student program of the Harvard Medical School, take this opportunity to express our satisfaction with, and commendation of, the program. We shall continue to give our enthusiastic support to the program, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cosigners Respond | 5/19/1976 | See Source »

The biggest change is the draft's provision for alternative versions of the central rites of the church: the Holy Eucharist, Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, and the Burial of the Dead. The first version, called Rite One, remains fairly close to the 1928 Prayer Book, though in many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A New Prayer Book | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

When Marxist rebels from Zaïre threatened last May to kill three kidnaped students in Tanzania-two of them Americans from Stanford University and the third Dutch-U.S. Ambassador W. Beverly Carter decided to bend a few of the State Department rules that forbid diplomats to get involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Beyond the Call of Duty | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

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