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Cunning Men. It took Dewey three ballots to regain the nomination in 1948 over Ohio's Robert Taft, Minnesota's Harold Stassen, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and California's Earl Warren-and the nomination was considered tantamount to election. The nation seemed weary of the frenetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Man Who Had It Won | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

Western businessmen may laugh, but such crocodilian cunning has allowed Houphouet to weld 60 backward tribes into one of Black Africa's most prosperous countries-and its most striking anomaly. Tanzania, Guinea and other young nations are nationalizing foreign holdings, restricting foreign investment and turning to socialism for solutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: The Sages of Abidjan | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

Miss Allingham's strength -and her husband's-is clear, serviceable prose, less careless than Agatha Christie's and less precious than Dorothy Sayers'. It must be said, though, that Mr. Campion began life in The Black Dudley Murder (1928) in unblushing imitation of Sayers'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exit Mr. Campion | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

Three more members of the Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee (CTOC) were convicted in Middlesex Third District Court yesterday on charges stemming from an attempt to block the eviction of William Cunning ham last December 11.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Convicted In Rent Trial; Kelly to Appeal | 1/19/1971 | See Source »

The most one-dimensional character in the play is Claudius, played by Jonathan James-Moore. He is a boring fellow, reciting his lines in perfect meter without much expression, even when he is supposed to show remorse. Miller has done more violence to him than any other, for the director...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Theatre Hamlet | 1/12/1971 | See Source »

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