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...East St. Louis, these relatively minor developments are cause for at least quiet celebration. All represent movement, and for a city at the very bottom of the urban heap, that can only mean improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CITY: THE EAST ST. LOUIS BLUES | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...oriented writer suggests gradually depressurizing the cabin until all the passengers, including the skyjacker, lose consciousness due to a lack of oxygen. Or maybe the crew could spray a small dose of a tranquilizer into the passenger area, turning the culprit-along with everyone else-into a contented, harmless heap. Still another suggestion is that the guns firing darts dipped in tranquilizers to fell animals without injury be used on airline pirates. More elaborate is a recommendation to construct a bogus airport south of Miami to resemble Havana's José Martí International. Plastered with Bienvenido...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skyjacking: To Catch a Thief | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...first, Dustin comes on all of a heap. His stance is simian, his face an objet trouvé. The hair is from a thatched roof in Cambodia, the nose and chin from a 1948 Chevrolet, the hooded eyes from a stuffed hawk. Even the voice seems assembled, an oboe with postnasal drip. It all appears a shambles?until it begins to work, stunning audiences with articulate force. His current comedy, Jimmy Shine, is a mere vaudeville of the absurd. But within it is the vortical power of Dustin, pulling in the laughs, the cast and the audience. He growls like Durante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Moonchild and the Fifth Beatle | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

Each bed and table bears its heap. I ask you, where am I to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...make an inhumane war one notch less destructive. The United States must face the fact that the NLF has earned a right to a place in any post-war government; and it must recognize that should that government go communist, the whole free world will not collapse in a heap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bombing | 11/2/1968 | See Source »

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