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...their personal problems through political activity. The same may be said of their official pursuers up to the highest level of the French government, whose ministers and bureaucrats are as blandly indifferent to humane concerns as the anarchists. There are some good performances by Fabio Testi as the most frantic of this Gallic wild bunch, Maurice Garrel as its weariest old soldier and by Mariangela Melato as its only feminist. As usual, Chabrol directs with admirable technical dexterity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Plenty of Nada | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...political style is dead. It should be buried, particularly by Presidents. Everybody except the politicians seems to sense that. Hoopla, frantic flying, blarney about peace and prosperity are worthless. Worse, they are laughable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Long Party Is Over | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

Thus ended the game of games, with a finish more frantic than it had any right to be.Harvard halfback TOM WINN [24] finds himself in the unenviable position of being in the midst of a gang of Big Green defenders. Looking on, presumably with sympathy, is the Crimson's All-American wide receiver PAT Mcinally...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper and Andrew P. Quigley jr., S | Title: Harvard, at Last, Defeats Dartmouth | 10/29/1974 | See Source »

Prophetic Dreams. The contestants had no monopoly on strangeness. Throughout the frantic days when it appeared that the match would be canceled, Gudmundur Thorarinsson comported himself with the kind of cool dignity befitting the president of the Icelandic Chess Federation and a Reykjavik city councilman. Except, that is, for that one moment when, by the light of the midnight sun, he assured some foreign friends that the match would take place because, based on consultations with a spiritualist, "prophetic dreams" and "certain powers" unique to his people, "I know a miracle will happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Iceland Follies | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

...Navy's Forrest Sherman-class guided-missile destroyer). Last week Turkey's semiofficial Anatolian News Agency reported that in mid-September a Kashin -class vessel caught fire, exploded and turned into a burning inferno while on Red Fleet patrol in the Black Sea. Despite a frantic Soviet rescue effort, at least 225 crewmen and missile technicians aboard died in the mishap. It was the most shocking peacetime sea disaster since the U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher sank in waters off Cape Cod, Mass., in 1963 with 129 sailors aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Inferno at Sea | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

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