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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Racial tensions in Birmingham culminated in 1963 when four black girls died in the bombing of a black Baptist church. In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, Morgan delivered a speech denouncing Birmingham's white leadership for encouraging a resort to violence. He soon left town--in the face of...

Author: By Dale S. Russakoff, | Title: ACLU's Morgan Plays Cowboy To Harvard Law's Puritans | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

Sir / It is about time the American people woke up to a few facts about our so-called "détente" with Russia. Détente is just a word to disguise the real purpose of Russia's final goal, which is to rule the world. We cannot afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1974 | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

A Way Out. FEO officials privately concede that the crude-oil allocation plan, which was ordered by Congress, has been an "unmitigated disaster." Simon last week called on Congress to suspend the program for 90 days to allow time to amend the system. Such a move would temporarily enable the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPPLY: Facing the Shortage Alone | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) is one of the films that was most responsible for acceptance of the French New Wave among intellectuals, back when it was a new wave. Alain Resnais, who made the film, does not seem such a major artist judging from the films he has made in...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: THE SCREEN | 2/28/1974 | See Source »

Out on parole in Manhattan last week after serving nearly 18 months for the Great Howard Hughes Hoax, an apparently reformed Clifford Irving said he might write a book about the need for prison reform. "Prison is a farce and a disaster," he declared sententiously. "If you are treated as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 25, 1974 | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

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