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Road maps say that the border of Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina is a crow-flies straight line along the 35th parallel from Scaly Mountain, N.C., to Guild, Tenn. But for more than a century a rather quaint controversy has cooked over whether an 1811 surveyor made a southward error -thrown off by a forest fire and Indian harassment-and gave Tennessee and North Carolina some 300 sq. mi. of mountainous woods that actually belong to Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Borderline Dispute | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

...fast-decaying 20th century, one art form has flourished like a carrion crow. It is witness literature, the testimony of men and women who have endured unspeakable torment and degradation, and emerged to tell an unbelieving world, "This is the way it was. I know. I was there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Witness | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

Last Saturday Harvard's heavyweight crow rowed to a length win over Brown in the Stein...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Parker Shuffles Boat For Compton Cup Race | 4/24/1971 | See Source »

When God hung Crow on a tree He made fruit

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Demons and Victims | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

When God buried Crow in the earth He made man ... When God said: "You win, Crow" He made the Redeemer. When God went off in despair Crow stropped his beak and started in on the two thieves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Demons and Victims | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

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