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...which was only fair, since she had never taken away his official home even during the months he was in prison). In another extraordinary gesture by the victors, J.P. Narayan-despite his poor health-paid a courtesy call on Mrs. Gandhi. The two old adversaries chatted amiably for a half-hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A Powerful Vote for Freedom | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...dandy half-hour, as well orchestrated an action sequence as you are likely to see, with the director drawing a nice but not overstated analogy between the meaningless violence of the game itself and the larger, equally meaningless violence impending from above. He is not saying the one begets the other, merely that there is something besides coincidence in their juxtaposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Waiting for the Blimp | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

...very much a group art, with a camera crew and a producer," says Brooklyn-born Berger. She dislikes being "pinned at the White House" for staged events when she could be out developing stories. Says she: "If I had the chance, I'd like to have my own half-hour interview program, or be one of the reporters on a weekly television magazine show where you could dig into a story at greater depth." At present, Berger is trying to put more decibels into her scholarly, soft-voiced delivery: "I should project more, be more dramatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Prime Time for TV Newswomen | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

Friends noticed the difference in the Morgans and asked for advice. Groups were formed, luncheons held. Several of the Miami Dolphins' wives tried the Morgan method. Result: well-publicized bliss. Says Charlie: "It snowballed. At night women would call every half-hour until midnight. I was about to go up the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The New Housewife Blues | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

During her half-hour electronic checkup, TIME Correspondent Anne Constable, 31, answered some 70 multiple-choice questions about everything from her family medical history and cultural background to her state of mind ("Have you ever seriously thought of ending your life?"). She was then advised that her statistical risk of dying within the next decade was 1,301 in 100,000. These precise odds, based on actuarial tables and clinical data stored away in the computer's memory banks, were just a fraction above those for the average white woman in the 30-to-34-year age group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Instant Checkup | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

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