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...analysis are intriguing enough, and his writing breezy enough, to carry his more dubious conclusions. And, if when you finish you still don't quite believe that Daddy Warbucks is alive and well and living in the executive suites of America, at least you will have a bit more insight into what does make the typical business mind tick so relentlessly...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The Games People Play | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...each appearance, she tips off the cops, timing the call so that they arrive too late to catch Bobby but in plenty of time to allow for a colorful comic chase. Naturally, the public rallies to him as a sort of Robin Hood figure. The film offers a glancing insight into a curious phenomenon of our time, namely, when the law's remedies for injustice fail, celebrity can be a powerful defense for the few individuals lucky enough to command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mock Heroics | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

This classic exchange may not be the last word on human aggression, but sociobiologists would admire the insight into male psychology. In their view, male displays and bravado-from antlers in deer and feather ruffling in birds to chest thumping in apes and humans-evolved as a reproductive strategy to impress females. Machismo is biologically based and says in effect: "I have good genes, let me mate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Sociobiology and Sex | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...King Sr.) in NBC'S two-part special on King scheduled to air Nov. 6 and 7. Although the 1965 Selma civil rights march, led by King, took place in Alabama, the cast and 300 extras were restaging it in southern Georgia last week. Earlier, to get more insight into the man whose role he was playing, Winfield had sought the advice of Martin Luther King Sr. Recalls Winfield wryly: "Daddy said to me, 'There was only one Martin.' End of conversation." · Washington's best-known bookworm has stacks of new reading for the supper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 11, 1977 | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...best known of the group is Yamani, 47, who studied at Harvard. Not a member of the numerous royal family (there are more than 3,000 princes), Yamani is a superb technocrat who combines an encyclopedic knowledge of the world oil industry and markets with political insight and dramatic flair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: Saudi Arabia's Growing Petropower | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

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