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...main task, they reason, and the President can later be brought back on stage when all parties are ready to reach a consensus in the fresh light of reason. Clearly, Nixon cannot wait too long before committing the prestige of his office to finding that consensus. Still, his instinct for caution has proved sound before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Nixon's Freeze and the Mood of labor | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

...movie, The Love Machine, based on an even better seller by Jacqueline Susann, charts the rise and fall of a libidinous television executive. Robin Stone (John Phillip Law) is first discovered broadcasting the local news by his boss's wife (Dyan Cannon), who has a kind of pelvic instinct for talent. She passes some heavy hints along to hubby (Robert Ryan), who sees Stone as the right man to boost the ratings.When hubby suffers his executive coronary, Stone slips right into his chair and his bed. His insatiable and some-what kinky appetites, however, get him into a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Valley of the Dregs | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

World War II was more remote and not as much fun. Willy's eldest son was killed in it. The strudel of his father's eye, he was a lad with an infallible business instinct for knowing just when to switch from regular to homogenized milk. By contrast, the surviving son, Frank Joseph Kleinhans, is an inept dreamer who goes through life keeping his amateur standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Diamond in the Fluff | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

...likelier that Lindsay has no such grand design and is waiting to hear the national response to his party switch and listen to what his staff and his political instinct tell him in the next few months. Says Mary Lindsay: "I asked him the other day, 'Do you know where all this is leading?' He looked at me and said 'I don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Conversion of John Lindsay | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

...Instinct. Some Democrats mutter, however, that Lindsay is the only politician who can make points out of chaos. He is the acknowledged leader of the nation's mayors in their fight for greater federal revenues to rescue the decaying cities. Lindsay says he plans to refute critics now by demonstrating that he can indeed govern New York City; he means also to use its problems as proof of a larger national crisis instead of evidence of his own incompetence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Conversion of John Lindsay | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

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