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...breath, as though they were more than half blocked. Your legs are unsteady. Your pace falters. You stumble on the mossy ground, and trip on the fallen brushwood. Instead of being pleased to be making some headway, escaping perhaps, you are glad only of a halt when you can lean against a tree trunk and catch your breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A Soldier's Death: From Solzhenitsyn's Augusf 1914 | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

...cooler Burger Court seems unlikely to stir the nation, more likely to let the law jell for a time, as its predecessor had begun to do. It seems to lean toward a different Supreme Court role: providing calm at a time of dislocation and national self-questioning. Yet the Burger Court may also risk a kind of partisanship, a tendency to resist social change, favor police power and not hear the claims of minority groups, to whom the Supreme Court had recently become the most responsive branch of Government. None of this necessarily means that the Burger Court is unrealistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Need for Reasons | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

...appearance, Joe Restic is very much akin to Yovicsin. He is tall and lean, his black hair is close-cropped and carefully placed. One veteran player-who found the Yovicsin style repugnant-shuddered when he first met Restic, viewed his conservative dress and eyed his thin tie settled on a white shirt...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Restic Assures Novelty, If Nothing Else | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

Like Wallace. Rizzo's victory and Shapp's support of Green vastly complicate the Pennsylvania political landscape and the selection of the state's 182 delegates to the 1972 Democratic Convention. Shapp is thought to lean toward a Kennedy nomination, while Rizzo presumably favors Washington's more conservative Senator Henry Jackson. Rizzo will probably defeat his G.O.P. opponent, Thacher Longstreth, a former city councilman, so there is bound to be a nasty intraparty fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: A Tough Cop for Mayor | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

Triple Jump: Howie Corwin and Lean Sharpe...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, | Title: Bud Wilson Elected Track Captain | 5/20/1971 | See Source »

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