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...fact, the dramatization was more like the Children of God of two years ago (TIME, Jan. 24, 1972). Today the Children are scattered to the four corners of the earth, preaching doom to America, buttering up Libya's latter-day caliph, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and loosening up their sex ethics enough to lure new members. Only a few hundred of the 3,000 or so hard-core members remain in the U.S. The reason, according to Founding Father David Berg, alias "Moses David," has to do with the comet Kohoutek, which was supposed to herald catastrophe to the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Children of Doom | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

...anticipation of the government's inability to outlast the miners, Heath has been trying to break the back of the strike with the weight of public opinion. Using propaganda tactics and predictions of doom if the miners get their way, Heath is skirting the economic issues behind the strike and trying to make it politically unfeasible for the miners to persist in their demands. Heath hopes to have Britons looking for reds under their beds with his charges that communists have infiltrated Britain's trade union's. His claim that the choice to be made in this election is "between...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: No Coal to Newcastle | 2/14/1974 | See Source »

...Other Side. NBC is obviously worried that the FCC decision, if upheld, will doom investigative reporting on the air. "There is no documentary," network lawyers argue, "dealing with and exposing any social problem to which the reasoning of the [FCC] staff opinion could not apply." Lawyer Floyd Abrams, who is representing NBC, says that the FCC "is moving into the newsroom more than ever before." Charges Executive Producer Reuven Frank, NBC news president at the time the documentary was shown: "If this were a rule, it would mean that television news must never examine a problem in American life without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who Decides Fairness? | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

...group of Frenchmen, most of them old friends, are gathered one morning in the wine cellar of Emmanuel Comte's 13th century castle, a feudal relic named Malevil. Abruptly the noise of jackhammering doom breaks loose, followed by suffocating heat. Civilization is gone in a nuclear flash. In Comte's castle, after some flirting with suicide, the microcosmic band of friends sets about reinventing society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Instant Replay | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

...poems show that morbidity had always been her native element. In the Ariel poems, published posthumously, madness is her theme, her scream and her doom. Ominous presences lurk in the shadows of her lines. Objects, col ors, odors, nature itself claw at the raw, chafed nerves of her being. In these last works she was half in love with death and courted it to attain the only peace that her tormented spirit could apparently know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Toppled King/Torn Mind | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

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