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Early last week, the Soviet Union, obviously seeking to bolster its image on the Dark Continent, stridently denounced the International Olympic Committee and more specifically its president, multi-millionaire Avery Brundage. Letting South Africa participate, the Soviet's Olympic Committee said, would be "an impermissible act which contradicts the basic...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Politics and Olympics Clash in '68 | 3/12/1968 | See Source »

Radical or Liar? By far, his most effective performance came before 3,000 Wisconsin State University students in Stevens Point. In snow-bunny country, he japed about his own ski-jump nose, then turned serious for a continent-by-continent review of U.S. policy. On Viet Nam, Nixon nimbly sidestepped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The Crucial Test | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

The minds of Cuba's 7.8 million citizens have rarely needed more diverting. Che Guevara is dead, and with him Castro's dream of leading a continent-wide revolution in Latin America. Cuba's relations with its Russian allies are at their lowest point since the 1962...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: A Time for Diversion | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

At his bidding the past week end, planes flew in from the Continent and London, from Los Angeles and New York, to disgorge bevies of international beauties every bit as dazzling as any courtesan painted by Watteau or Fragonard. Their names tumbled out of Burke 's Peerage, the Almanack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Society: The Shepherd & His Lambs | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

Miserable & Mad. Indeed, the slightly schizoid Romantic preoccupation with nature and the supernatural, physical reality and psychological mystery, rooted itself easily in English soil. Swiss-born John Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) emigrated to England at 22 and took up painting with the encouragement of Sir Joshua Reynolds. His ghoulish portrayals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Century of Exception | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

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