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...that they catch with their hands. Through contact with Dafal, the Tasaday have learned to trap birds in a sticky substance; civet cats, rats, monkeys and pigs are taken in primitive traps. Fires are still set by rubbing pieces of wood together, and meat either roasted over an open flame or boiled in bamboo cooking tubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Lost Tribe of the Tasaday | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

...will tour of Europe in Denmark. Then it was Wednesday, and that must have been Belgium, where Hirohito signed the Livre d'Or at the unknown soldier's monument in Brussels. Hirohito was handed a ritual sword with which, according to custom, visiting dignitaries fan the eternal flame. Obviously unsure what he was supposed to do with the thing, Hirohito gave a military salute instead. When he visited Waterloo, cheers of "Long live the Emperor!" echoed across the battlefield. After a gala banquet given by King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola, the slight, shy, 70-year-old Hirohito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Imperial Tourists | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

...much of the work of Godard and Truffaut. Made entirely in Viet Nam during 1969, the movie is full of scenes of severe beauty: gas-masked soldiers outlined against a metallic sky, actors in elaborate Oriental costume running from a bombed theater, whole rows of huts bursting suddenly into flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Orphans of the War | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

...dead, and the journey back from both could only be made through violent revolution. "All the gentle, shy characteristics of the black man have been wrung unceremoniously from my soul. The buffets and blows of this have and have-not society have engendered in me a flame that will live, live to grow, until it either destroys my tormentor or myself." Last week in San Quentin, the flame burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Death in San Quentin | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

Under the new rules, when a flame touches the nightwear, the fire must be self-extinguishing and leave no charring more than seven inches from the point of contact. To demonstrate, Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans touched matches to flammable and nonflammable pajamas on dolls. Coming up next on the Government's agenda: flameproofing standards for mattresses and blankets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: To Save the Children | 8/9/1971 | See Source »

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