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It is a rare moment, after years of journalistic travels, to have a whole fresh continent to see for the first time.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: South America: Notes on a New Continent | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

The brevity of the visit is remarked at each stop. You point out that if you stayed the fortnight you would wish in Country A, you couldn't go on to B and C, and how long has it been, by the way, since your new Brazilian friend was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: South America: Notes on a New Continent | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

Argentina is the saddest place on the continent: ravaged by years of misgovernment, terrorism from the left and right, inflation that runs at 20% to 30% a month, despair and cynicism among the large and seemingly helpless bourgeoisie. How this highly favored land, with its 10 ft. of topsoil and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: South America: Notes on a New Continent | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

Traditionally addicted to glutinous pasta, pudding and pastry, Europeans in the past have been less concerned than Americans about the health risks posed by obesity. Then, too, a slender figure has never been as universally admired on the Continent as it is in the U.S. In West Germany, where Doppel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Polysaturation Point | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

In days when monarch ruled as well as reigned, sacking a Prime Minister was a well-exercised royal prerogative. Things are supposed to be different nowadays-at least within the British Commonwealth-but it did not seem so in Australia last week. There the personal representative of Queen Elizabeth II...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The Governor General's Coup d'Etat | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

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