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...tightly knit organization was ir possible in the South, but in the North discipline was the key to survival. Notes were passed in the latrine, exercise am prayers were kept up, and a camp chronicler was even appointed to record the history of the captivity. By late 1969 such discipline had carried the prisoners through the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: P.O.W.S: And Now a Darker Story | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...clearly comfortable ir his new role. Ever since he wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Metternich, he has admired statesmen who combined a cul tivated life-style with the shrewd exercise of diplomacy. Kissinger is trying to revive some of the bygone elegance of public life; grimness is for the ideologues and zealots who haven't made the world such a troubled place to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Henry Kissinger Off Duty | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

...spectacular talents, most of us would accept an amalgam of megalomania, immorality, the frizzles and flat feet; but happily we don't have to. To experience a Sills performance is to revel in her joyous nature, her exuberance, her graciousness and that leavening of mischief. Sills is summer ir full bloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 13, 1971 | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...Doctors. Only toward the end of his career, Williams feels, did King fully understand the realities of power ir America and begin to take the steps that would have made him a truly effective leader by seeking to unite the nation's poor across class and color lines against the Viet Nam War. This idea Williams argues, so threatened the hegemony of the white power structure group that it decided that King must be destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: Posthumous Pillory | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

Explaining the agency's objection to any combination of antibacterial drugs, Commissioner Herbert L. Ley Ir. says: "The use of two or more active ingredients in treating any patient who can be cured by one is irrational. It exposes the patient to an unnecessary risk. Antibiotics should be used like a rifle, not like a shotgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FDA: Cleaning Out the Medicine Chest | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

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