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...GABRIEL himself might have envied his heaven-splitting, jubilant sound. His glossy face and keyboard-size grin were a national treasure-and a welcome sight in homes that would not dream of entertaining any other member of his race. He was a musical genius, a remarkable technician of the trumpet who went on to even wider fame as a singer. The fact that his voice sounded exactly like a wheelbarrow crunching its way up a gravel driveway made no difference at all. Legends don't need voices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Trumpet for the First Trumpeter | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...mile ranges. In two or three years, after further research and development, more efficient Harpoon missiles will be introduced. In addition, in an unusual move for a nation that has traditionally developed its own weapons, the U.S. is considering buying either the Israeli surface-to-surface Gabriel missile or the French Exocet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Soviet Thrust in the Mediterranean | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

Gods or Conquerors. Nonetheless, a formidable body of believers still exists. Among them are such uncompromising types as Gabriel Green, president of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, Inc. Last week he told the Wall Street Journal that inhabitants of other worlds are holding off on their visitations to the troubled earth because they feel that they would either be worshiped as gods or feared as conquerors. The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena thinks that such speculations are sheer nonsense but still refuses to reject UFOs out of hand. Says the committee's executive director, G. Stuart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Saucer Diehards | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

...Twenty-eight of them died when an Allegheny Airlines twin jet crashed in a swamp near Connecticut's Tweed-New Haven Airport. Another 50 were killed in the collision of a Hughes Air West DC-9 and a Navy F-4 Phantom jet over California's San Gabriel Mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fatal Sequence | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

Joan Baez had something special to sing about-Husband David Harris, 25, was free after serving 20 months for refusing to register for the draft. Joan, 30, and their 16-month-old son Gabriel met him at the penitentiary near El Paso; from there, they flew to a San Francisco press conference. David plans "getting my feet on the ground" and then (with the permission of his parole officer) to go back to resisting the Indochinese war and the Selective Service. His resistance will be nonviolent, because nonviolence is "the most powerful tool available to anybody in this society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 29, 1971 | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

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