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To Le Monde, the treaty was a "turning point in the history of modern Europe." Der Spiegel, the German newsmagazine, called it an accomplishment of "farsighted boldness." Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the French publisher-politician, saw the pact as a "passport to the East, a preface to a policy of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A New Era in Europe | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

Idea's Beauty. The secret of the swift, silent ride is simple magnetism. Even before World War I, a farsighted French inventor, Emile Bachelet, demonstrated the feasibility of lifting railroad cars slightly off the track and propelling them forward with strong electromagnetic forces. The beauty of Bachelet's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Flying Railroad | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

ON Wall Street, some things are more frightening than panic. One is the sort of Chinese water torture that the stock market has been enduring - the drip, drip, drip of week-by-week price erosion marked not by tumultuous selling but by an absence of buying. Panics tend to burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chinese Torture in the Stock Market | 5/25/1970 | See Source »

He was earning $1,200 a month and had saved about $5,000 despite supporting a wife and seven children. Three weeks after being laid off, he put down all of his savings, plus about $ 13,000 borrowed from his father, and opened a franchised Tastee Freez stand. "I am...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: What It Is Like to be Laid Off | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

If you thought that Harvard's success in the Ivy hockey league depended primarily upon its two performances against defending champion Cornell, you might have been overly farsighted.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icemen, Cagers Face Tough Weekend Tests | 1/7/1970 | See Source »

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