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Hundreds of hysterical whites crowded the street in front of the radio station. Fearing a racial pogrom, others packed their belongings into cars or trucks and headed toward the South African border. Furious at the possibility that their independence might be denied them, blacks meanwhile went on a rampage, looting stores and beating many whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Revolt of the Toothless Dragons | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...John says angrily. "I could be a pair of hands for you, but you could never crew for me." The remark, Lipscomb acknowledges bitterly, was just. So was John's anger on another occasion when his father playfully tried to throw him into a tropical harbor. Furious because his father could take liberties that he could not, John offered to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fathers and Sons | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...whatever form such choices are presented to the White House, they will surely touch off a furious national debate. Final decisions may be a long time coming. But at least Project Independence has begun to turn from a mere slogan into a set of proposals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENERGY: Project Realism | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

...list. Yet leading is precisely what contemporary intellectuals do not do much of. The record indicates that most of them followed black activists into the race issue and young antiwar militants into opposing the Viet Nam War. But then so did nearly everyone else who was not furious at being denied a job because of his color or threatened with having to fight a tainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Intellectuals: It Takes One to Know One | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

...preside over a bar mitzvah, all the while being chased by the terrorists because he is still in the company of the political leader, also disguised as a rabbi. De Funès cannot, of course, get out to his daughter's wedding, so his wife is furious, his daughter weeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Strictly Kosher | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

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