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...visited children's hospitals, kissing crippled babies in front of the TV cameras. She flew over the flood-ravaged pampas in order to dramatize the need for relief. During the campaign she made an eight-stop tour of the north. She even managed to enlist the support of her most vocal enemies, the party's left-wing youth. They organized a huge crowd for her at Buenos Aires' Aeroparque airport, which significantly cheered both Peron and Isabelita. In all, it was precisely the kind of stumping Evita made famous among the descamisados (shirtless ones), who loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Isabelita: Per | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

DeBary contends that universities should be trying not only to hold the line on liberal education but also to advance it. "Far from holing up in its own bunker," he asserted, "general education should try to break out into new ground where it can hope to enlist new recruits and find new intellectual sustenance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Crisis Amid the Calm | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

Claude comes under the influence of a couple of married swingers (Nathalie Delon, Jean-Pierre Marielle) who try to enlist him in the joys of communal sex. He is tempted but resists, and instead uses his wife as an outlet for his mounting energies and disintegrating inhibitions, as well as his expanding knowledge of geometrically complex sexual postures. After his wife persuades him to hire a clerk to staff the shop (Beatrice Romand), Claude tries to seduce the clerk, but she turns out to be more interested in Claude's wife. Finally every body goes off on a sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: French Postcard | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...that the U.S. would make concessions to the Arabs in its Middle East policy when he kicked the Russians out last year. He lost that gamble. Deciding to place emphasis on Arab self-reliance, he traveled to Saudi Arabia late last month to tighten relations with conservative King Feisal, enlist his aid in oil diplomacy, and persuade him to part with sizable financial aid for Egypt. Sadat also began seeking closer relations with Syria and with the oil-rich Gulf states; he visited Damascus and Qatar and met with the ruler of Kuwait in Cairo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: An Israeli Blitz v. Arab Summitry | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

Chances are better than excellent (and mind you, this is not the National Weather Bureau forecast) that SDS will try to sell you a Challenge, that someone from PBH will attempt to enlist your support for any of its several programs, that you'll be asked to fill out a form for a sports events ticket book, and that The Crimson will be on hand to push both its daily and the Confi Guide...

Author: By Robin Freedberg, | Title: Watch It! They'll Take Your Money and Run | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

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