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Still, conservatism does not rule out innovation. After all, the prophet is a visionary and given to sudden revelations. In 1978 president Spencer Kimball had one such revelation, and blacks were finally allowed to become priests of the church. It was a practical vision. Proselytizing had been proceeding apace in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saints Preserve Us | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

The astonishing materials of war. To save a Europe that had lost virtually its entire industrial capacity to the Germans, and to carry the war to Japan, the U.S. turned on a great gusher that armed and propelled Allied forces back onto the Continent. Without that, there would have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home Front | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

Humans may have arrived in North America almost a millennium earlier than previously believed. A hacked up mastodon tusk, 12,200 years old, showed evidence that humans had cut on its tusk -- in what is now Florida. That geographic location also plays havoc with the notion that humans first arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GETTING HERE FIRST | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

Eisenhower said, "Monty's suggestion is simple: give him everything, which is crazy." Roosevelt and Marshall would not have stood for an arrangement that left a British general in charge of the much larger American forces. Eisenhower did not trust Montgomery to carry out the kind of swift, dashing warfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: IKE'S INVASION | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

Tarantino's guilty secret, which the international critics should have noticed, is that his films are cultural hybrids. The blood and gore, the cheeky patter, the taunting mise-en-scene are all very American -- the old studios at their snazziest. But Tarantino's hard guys also reflect a European sensibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saturday Night Fever | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

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