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...only thing certain about the current draft conundrum is who must resolve it. Members of the House Armed Services Committee have told Harvard officials that Congress has "tossed the ball" to the President. The President must come to a decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time to Decide | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...affair becomes the scandal of Whitehall, and Bogarde eventually slinks back to Oxford in disgrace. A year later, though, the old boys need him again and all is forgiven. Bogarde and York rejoin forces-he mechanically holding the solution to the Reds' most recent conundrum in his mind, she tenderly holding their illegitimate son in her arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Sebastian | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...identity problem (again) is posed here more as a conundrum than a crisis. Cornelius Yamb is hired by a gangster syndicate to track down a nearmythical youth named Bruno, heir to a fabulous fortune. The quest leads him to a remote Canadian village, where to his surprise he is welcomed as Conrad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Are Things in Glocca Morra? | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...hears all and who proves to be on target about everything else, says he never left his seat. But most of the time Diddy's deed seems the least of the author's concerns, for she is too busy with other things: writing the kind of "modernistic" conundrum that was fashionable in the '20s, folding in essays on alienation and editorials on Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Did He? | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

Israel's conquest of Jordanian Jerusalem, which sent thousands of devout Jews to pray in freedom before the historic Wailing Wall for the first time in centuries, has raised an interesting theo logical conundrum. Assuming that Israel keeps the Wall, which is one of the few remaining ruins of Judaism's Second Temple, has the time now come for the erection of the Third Temple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judaism: Should the Temple Be Rebuilt? | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

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