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...country!" he exclaimed. "Yet they say not a word, utter no moral judgment on all the executioners, the inquisitors and the informers." Instead, he said, "as soon as the West German radio announced that Gulag would be broadcast for a half-hour daily, they frantically rushed to jam it. Not a single word of this book must penetrate our country. As if they could stop...
...Exorcist must be what people want. It must have tapped some starved mood of the public. For it has already become a happening as heavy in the air as the last Stones tour, a mandatory movie experience. In Los Angeles the mob turn-out set off a traffic jam that slowed down half the city; the scramble for tickets at the box office sparked off a riot; the theater reported an average of 23 vomitings and fainting fits per performance, and promptly jacked up the admission price. And although a crew of nurses was hired to help the sick...
What may well be the nation's ultimate singles war is not on Sunset Strip or Manhattan's Upper East Side but in Bloomington, Minn., a suburb of Minneapolis. Every night hundreds and sometimes thousands of singles from all over the Midwest jam the Left Guard, a giant, 27,000-sq.-ft. club owned in part by two former stars of the Green Bay Packers, Fuzzy Thurston and Max McGee. TIME Correspondent Richard Woodbury recently made the scene at the Left Guard His report...
...junkyards, filling stations and hotdog stands. Foreigners might tempt with siren songs of durability and economy, and lure no small number of Americans into dalliance with a Volkswagen or Toyota. Even the average driver in the last decade or so might grumble at his beloved during a traffic jam or on the day that the insurance premium came due; he might actually feel a bit shamed when comparing notes with a sports-car fanatic. But he always ?or nearly always?remained loyal to that sleek machine in the showroom...
...drug addicts, alcoholics, the young, the aged and "the poor in general." Thousands of people are being dumped into nursing or foster homes where conditions are often deplorable. Since New York State started emptying its mental institutions of thousands of inmates six years ago, many of them "have been jammed into tiny rooms, basements, and garages and fed a semi-starvation diet of rice and chicken necks," an investigation by the Long Island newspaper Newsday revealed last week. The state has made little or no provision to ensure the former mental patients "suitable housing or supervised after-care," charged Newsday...