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Some Middle East experts wonder whether the merger will last any longer than the ill-fated 1958-61 union of Syria and Egypt. Nonetheless, there are already signs of a basic change in relations between the two countries. Troops have been reduced along the common border. After years of vilifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Iraq and Syria: A New Axis for Unity | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

The movie is an adaptation of Simon's Broadway hit, a collection of four one-act plays set in the Beverly Hills Hotel. Rather than film the segments in succession, as Arthur Hiller did in his ill-fated screen version of Simon's Plaza Suite, Ross cuts back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mixed Doubles | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

As the Nobel Committee has learned, its prize is less often the reward for "successful efforts at peace than it is - as it was with Von Ossietzky - for a valiant try. In their continuing maneuvers toward Middle Eastern peace, Sadat and Begin might well ponder the case histories of some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Saints and Statesmen | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Mindful of this injunction, Bender quits school and goes to work so that his indolent brother Babe can have a college education. But Babe is fated to fail in business, while Irving succeeds as a bootlegger during the Depression and later as the owner of a summer camp in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irving's World | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

When Richard Nixon nominated Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. to the Supreme Court in 1971, on his mind must have been something like General Pickett's exhortation to his troops before their ill-fated charge at Gettysburg:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Man in the Middle | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

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