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The arrangement leaves Iraq looking for customers for 60% of the oil it used to sell to the West. As the price for its derring-do in taking over I.P.C., Baghdad faces a severe cutback in its ambitious plans for agricultural and industrial development. The Baath regime has already ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Price of Derring-Do | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

Social Science Professor David Klein has not actually made that proposal, but in a recent issue of the Journal of Safety Research, he makes a sweeping generalization about snowmobile enthusiasts: they court danger to achieve satisfactions that their dull jobs cannot provide. The problem, Klein theorizes, stems from the discrepancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Snowmobile Psychology | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

The break was executed with all the attention to detail and derring-do of a commando raid. Early one evening last week, two well-dressed young men called at the home of Billy Rial Castillo, 30, a Mormon missionary who lives across the street from Montevideo's Punta Carreta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: The Tupamaros Tunnel Out | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

On the U.S. side, too, the airlift had come under mounting criticism. In June the Senate Appropriations Committee, noting that the flights had cost a total of $4,000,000, threatened to cut off Government financing. U.S. critics also pointed out that the airlift discriminated against other Latin Americans who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: End of the Freedom Flights | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

SAVAGE, THE MAN OF BRONZE! Startled, the browser glanced left and right; nobody was looking. Then with a furtive movement he snatched The Man of Bronze off its shelf and, slipping it deftly under a copy of Hazlitt's essays, strolled thoughtfully toward the cashier. Doc Savage? If you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Gore of Yore | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

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