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...left as well as a convenient outpost for the Soviet Union. So many Marxist activists were pouring in from Cuba, Czechoslovakia and China that a special team of CIA clerks was dispatched to Chile to start indexing thousands of cards on their activities. Publicly, Henry Kissinger warned of the domino effect in Latin America. If Communism could find a secure berth in Chile, it would be encouraged to spread throughout the continent. Privately, the 40 Committee, the top-level intelligence panel headed by Kissinger, authorized $8 million to be spent to make life even tougher for Allende than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Chile: A Case Study | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

...little before you find a place that meets your specifications. Exprimentation may require a little help from your friends, however, because many places don't serve single slices of pizza as Joe's and Harvard Pizza. If you're feeling lazy and not too particular, Gershman's and Domino's will deliver some soggy pizza to your door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bars And the Like | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

...Domino Theory. A Minneapolis housewife, Delores Wegner, 37, recently voiced just such a note of loss in a distressed letter to her diocesan newspaper, the Catholic Bulletin. "What was the first snowflake of compromise," she asked, that led to the "present avalanche of spiritual and religious concessions? Was it the first time we said 'Holy Spirit' instead of 'Holy Ghost'? The first hamburger we ate on Friday? The first time we stood to receive Holy Communion?" Believing in an ecclesiastical domino theory, Mrs. Wegner and many like her find the beginnings of Catholic troubles in even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Counter-Reformation | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

...Well, I think I convinced him why he would not want to hang-out either. There is a certain domino situation here. If some things start going, a lot of other things

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: The Most Critical Nixon Conversations | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...best thing anyone can do for me is not to mention Bob Dylan," said Springsteen last week at Gertie's in Dallas. "I've been influenced by everybody from Benny Goodman on: Sam Cooke, Wilson Pickett, Fats Domino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Along Pinball Way | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

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