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When it comes to politics, Li'I Abner and Pogo, which have satirized it for years, are at least as up to date as the men in Washington. Two characters that bear a remarkable resemblance to Senators Hubert Humphrey and Hugh Scott were recently dispatched to Li'l...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE COMICS ON THE COUCH | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

Strangely enough, the children are all learning to read at a public school in Merrick, N.Y., on Long Island's South Shore. The rattles are supposed to enhance "reading readiness" by sharpening a child's hearing discrimination; the dictated stories enable the teacher to show students how their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Readings on Reading | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

Walters dipped the Cobra's nose and rolled out to the northwest. A set of scrambled alphabet letters came in over the T.O.C. radio, and Hayden pulled out his "Whiz Wheel" decoder to decipher the grid coordinates of his mission. As their chopper raced over the bomb-pocked Laotian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Killing Is Our Business and Business Is Good | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

The idea of evaluating the intellectual and emotional makeup of a child by analyzing his drawings did not originate with Kaufman and Burns. Ever since the 1920s, psychologists have been measuring intelligence by asking children to draw a person (the D-A-P test). For the past two decades, clues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Diagnosis by Drawing | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

That is a message not hard to decipher. George McGovern believes that antiwar, new-politics forces that shook the country in 1968 can and will do it again in 1972, and he aims to prove in the primaries that his brand of charisma is good enough to lead the way...

Author: By Tom Wicker, | Title: THIS IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. ISN'T THIS WHAT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR? McGOVERN FOR PRESIDENT Charisma Is as Charism | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

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