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Role of Chance. His robots have turned into cybernetic escapades. Behind their Plexiglas facades, these new sculptures are as immediate and erratic as a jukebox full of Beatles. His sculptures are "superfluous, relating to no specific function. They are instruments for me to express something." What? The answer seems to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: The Motion Is Haphazard, The Situation Unpredictable | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

If goalie Bill Fitzsimmons, who has been erratic all year, has a bad day, then Dartmouth might come close in a high-scoring battle. But the Beanpot magic entered Fitzsimmon's wand against Northeastern and he has another mission two days from now against B.U. The Dartmouth revellers will have...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Crimson Sextet Faces Dartmouth; Victory Seen for Morning Match | 2/12/1966 | See Source »

Cambodia's tubby Prince Norodom Sihanouk was like a man trapped in a revolving door. At the Viet Nam border there was the U.S.'s 1st Air Cavalry, threatening to pursue the enemy across the Cambodian frontier (see South Viet Nam). To the west, Sihanouk's troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: The Embattled Prince | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

On the whole, however, political liberalization has been slow and erratic. Most of the old restrictive laws are still on the books, and although they are sel dom enforced, the regime can dust them off at its pleasure, and does. Three years ago, Spanish Communist Julián Grimau was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: The Awakening Land | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

Principles as Tools. Fletcher argues that situation ethics avoids the pitfalls of other approaches to morality. In both the natural-law morality of Roman Catholics and the scriptural law of Protestantism, he argues, principles become inflexible and "obedience to prefabricated 'rules of conduct' is more important than freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theology: Situation Ethics: | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

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