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...back or float away depends on their understanding of the terrain.J.P.Morgan understands it, or at least keeps himself so entombed in greatness that he can afford to. He is obsessed by the ancient Egyptians, by their religion and the idea that a colony of gods may be chosen to inherit the earth and build huge monuments...

Author: By Richard Tuhner, | Title: Playing Ragtime Slow | 8/12/1975 | See Source »

...underdeveloped countries against trying to expel Israel from the General Assembly this fall. Said he: "We fear for the integrity and survival of the General Assembly itself, and no less for that of the specialized agencies. Those who seek to manipulate U.S. membership by procedural abuse may well inherit an empty shell." Kissinger pointedly declared that "the American people are understandably tired of the inflammatory rhetoric against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Confronting the Critics | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

...quickly told, although not, unfortunately, by Nichols or his pseudonymous Scenarist Adrien Joyce (Carol Eastman, who wrote Five Easy Pieces). The movie is barely 90 minutes long, but it lingers badly. Oscar and Nicky latch on to a rich girl (Stockard Channing) whose worldly goods they hope to inherit. She is the heiress to a sanitary-napkin fortune, and to get her money one of the boys must marry her. Although Nicky has eyes for the girl, he is already wed. This leaves Oscar, who consents out of deference both to the caper and to the Mann Act. The heiress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Small Change | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

...bitter and self-paying and in the end destroys not only himself with his inability to rope with reality, but also the lives of those around him, in anger and frustration over his aborted career he becomes obsessed with the dream of a son--a son who, presumably, will inherit his father's talent, and thereby fulfill his father's fantasies. But it turns out he and his wife cannot have a child. Feeling betrayed once again, he leaves...

Author: By Sarah Crichton, | Title: Bygone Glory | 5/16/1975 | See Source »

...Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport, the scene of the ongoing evacuation of both Americans and Vietnamese. In any case many analysts believe that the Communists are determined to be in Saigon in time for the May 19 celebrations of Ho Chi Minh's birthday. "They want to inherit Ho Chi Minh-grad intact," a South Vietnamese official said sardonically. "Half the industry in the country is situated between Saigon and Bien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Preparing to Deal for Peace | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

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