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In the days and weeks before spring vacation the images become unbearable in their vividness and unruly in their allure. The tolling of the Mem Church bell at the end of a lecture becomes the age-old ring of a village steeple in Italy, calling the peasants from the surrounding...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: The Wrongs of Spring | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

...policy. President Giscard has called for a summit of the Common Market nations' leaders. If solutions do not emerge soon, Europe could be on its way either to astronomical inflation or mass business failures and double-digit unemployment. These conditions, if allowed to fester, could eventually produce massive disillusionment with Europe's seemingly powerless democratic institutions. The specter of such disillusion makes many Europeans edgy. For widespread despair would no doubt encourage the demagogues of the extreme right and left, as it did in the 1930s, to try to impose their own kind of repressive solutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Season of Discontent | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

After 2½ years of controversy, the nation's first peacetime wage-price controls died last week, leaving disillusion and double-digit inflation in their wake. Almost immediately, prices began to scoot higher on a wide range of goods, including cars, light bulbs, liquid oxygen, some air-conditioning equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROLS: Bulge After Death | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

It may be the ultimate irony of this tragedy that Nixon's defensive maneuvers will assure his resignation or impeachment. His frantic movement round the nation may build warm emotion among those who still stand behind him. But apparently the televised spectacles anger the disbelievers all the more and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Silence as a Statement | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

Thai students last week also found time for a demonstration against the U.S. It was sparked by reports in three Thai newspapers that an American CIA agent had sent Premier Sanya a fake letter purporting to be from a Communist insurgent leader in Northeast Thailand and offering a cease-fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: Japan: Rich and Unloved | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

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