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...police turned the slain man's list of license plates over to the FBI, and last week Gilly and two others, Aubran Wayne Martin, 23, and Claude Edward Vealey, 26, were arrested in Cleveland and charged with shooting Yablonski, his wife and his daughter in their beds before dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: A Hand from the Grave | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...Nations observers. What really happened was that 30 Egyptians crossed the canal opposite a U.N. post at the north end of the Ballah Cut. As near as could be determined in the darkness, the Egyptians peeked over the embankment on the Israeli side, then crawled back and waited. At dawn they moved into holes on the embankment and stayed put while the Israelis called down artillery fire. As darkness fell again, the Egyptians planted a flag and withdrew to the west bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: War of the Communiqu | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...part, the headlines merely reaffirmed the humanity of the race, which in the space age remains as susceptible to greed and graft and the curse of Cain as it has been since the dawn of time. For the weak, temptation is ever at hand; for the brave, violence waits patiently in ambush. Beyond private sin, however, those who misuse public trust do a special evil. West Virginia and New Jersey seem to justify the theory of democracy that argues not that the people are virtuous enough to rule themselves, but rather that no man is ever virtuous enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Crime Marches On | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

...remarkably affecting. She is ethereal, vulnerable, and in some strange way purer than the infancy of truth. Yet the granitic power and sweep of the film rest with Williamson. Here are antic wit, sly, sarcastic irony, erotic longings, a sentient intelligence that lights up thought like the sun at dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Elsinore of the Mind | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...little fishes and mites of the sea march out of the waters at dawn and terrorize the villagers in seacoast towns by dancing in the streets and kicking the neighborhood poodles...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: The FutureTea Leaves and Taurus | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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