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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For Washington-based Correspondent Don Sider, reporting this week's cover story on the state of the nation's defense required a four-week investigative campaign that included interviews with most of the Pentagon's top brass. All told, Sider met face to face with 45 military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 29, 1979 | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Aioninflationary means of obtaining the money needed to buy more arms might be to free funds by cutting the Defense Department's fat. Though Chairman Jones has stressed that it is "just plain wrong" to think that "somebody can tap a 'mother lode' by issuing an order to get more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Power | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

You can find much better books about jazz. For literary merit, read LeRoi Jones's uneven but occasionally brilliant Black Music. For biography and oral history, read Spellman's Four Lives. For comprehensive approach and an up-to-date discography Frank Tirro's Jazz: A History is among one of...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Jazzing Up an Old Age | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

The subtlety of this work is much better appreciated on the large screen than it is on the small, and for this compilation, Jones has cut pieces from 16 Road Runners together into a seamless super-chase. It is reason enough to attend this movie, but there are others. Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magnificent Obsessives | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

There are a few less happy sequences, especially one involving Pepe le Pew, the amorous French-accented skunk, and it may be a mistake to use Bugs as a host-narrator. His specialty was one-liners, and a mouthful of words ill suits his style. But why quibble? Jones was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magnificent Obsessives | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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