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...book is at its insider's best ex plaining the charade. In one of the strike's darkest hours, GM could easily have arranged a bruising raid on the union's strike fund by demanding some $23 million to keep up payments on the workers' health and life insurance plans...
...prisoners are released. A reasonably clear general picture about the life of prisoners in the North had already emerged: captives there were held in camps, sustained by regular though substandard diets and permitted to keep themselves physically fit. It was a hard but organized life. "During some of our darkest days," Capt. Denton recalled, "we tried to cheer one another by emitting a signal, the soft whistling of the song California, Here I Come. We usually knew we were whistling in the dark...
HENRY KISSINGER is back on top now, his darkest days behind him. They occurred just after his celebrated comment in October that "peace is at hand." He became the victim of personal attacks then, with widespread rumors that his boss, President Nixon, was unhappy with his performance. But it was not the first time that Kissinger had found it difficult to be his own man and Richard Nixon's man at the same time. Doggedly carrying on what Washington pundits called "threeway negotiations -with Hanoi, Saigon and Nixon," Kissinger became a driven diplomat. Toward the end, his usual gentle...
...have always felt for our sister publication. We were older (TIME started in 1923; LIFE in 1936). But LIFE by its nature was more spectacular and glamorous. We sometimes envied the lavishness of its enterprises-LIFE always seemed to be chartering planes across the Atlantic or organizing safaris into darkest Africa. Our photographers yearned for LIFE's large pages, and our space-conscious writers were awed by its willingness to carry very lengthy accounts of the fall of Rome or the rise of a star. Essentially, we loved LIFE and were fiercely proud...
...national but the local scene. People in every state have had a substantial rise in personal income in recent years (see chart). But this year there is a remarkable chiaroscuro of regional lights and shadows in the U.S. economic picture. A guide to the variations, from brightest to darkest...