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Feet Dragging. Last week the bandits released the son of an automobile dealer whose family had ignited the campaign against them. Once again, they claimed a victory. While the relatives of Nino Petretto, 37, had originally refused to ransom him, in the end they decided that it was wiser to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Cruel Tyrants | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

There is nothing highhanded about Thalassa, a 59-year-old British-born grandmother who finds "relief from the everyday pressures of life by working among living things which refuse to be hurried." On her twice-weekly show, Making Things Grow, which is carried on five educational stations in New England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: The Private Spring Of Thalassa Cruso | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

Two-Tier Price. Finally, the pressure grew so great that the U.S. refused to continue to feed gold to satisfy speculators' greed. In a telephoned message to British Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins, the U.S. asked Britain to close the London gold market and shut off the flow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Speculative Stampede | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

But Manerud's hurried boot was wide by a foot, and by twelve inches the Crimson squeaked through with its only post season bowl title in Harvard's football history

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The History Of Harvard Sports | 3/16/1968 | See Source »

Winking Lights. In the first two weeks after Tet, food prices rose sharply. Rice, for example, rose to 150 per lb. v. 70 pre-Tet; fish went from 370 to $1.44 per lb., and live chickens from $1.50 to $7.00 apiece. But farmers in the area were in such a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Saigon Under Siege | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

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