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...follow the story, the newsmen bivouacked at the Kabul Inter-Continental Hotel, plying diplomats for information over ashak canapes (leek-stuffed pastry in a sour cream broth) and mutton, or drinking Czech pilsner beer in the hotel bar. Here one evening last week a sheepish employee announced that all American newsmen were to have their passports checked in the lobby by two Afghan policemen. Instead, the U.S. newsmen sallied forth with blazing floodlights and whirring film cameras. Terrified, the Afghan policemen fled. But the reprieve was short-lived. By 8 the next morning, armed Afghan police sealed off the hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: That's No Way to Say Goodbye | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...EXECUTING ENEMIES. A head isn't like a leek. It doesn't grow again once it's been cut. If you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there's no way of doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: INSTANT WISDOM: BEYOND THE LITTLE RED BOOK | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...swollen and puffed up; I looked like a Frankenstein monster," complained Astrologer-Author Sybil Leek, recalling her visit to South Carolina last November. Scheduled to address a convention of auto executives, Sybil had stopped by the Hilton Head Inn pool beforehand "for a few deep breaths of good air." The seer failed to see a stream of gas from a rusty chemical cylinder, however, and instead of air, inhaled some escaping chlorine. The result, says Astrologer Leek, was a case of chemical pneumonia, a four-day hospital stay and two months of severe headaches. Forgoing mystical incantations, the astrologer last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 26, 1976 | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...done by Mr. Onassis it is a Greek streak, by any Welshman a leek streak. In the Middle East Henry Kissinger has doubtless seen a sheik streak. Men of humble mien do a meek streak, while those running fully clothed through a nudist colony do a freak streak. If the act is performed in Bergdorf's, it is, no doubt, a chic streak, and in any high fashion store, a boutique streak. The solo act is a unique streak; a group performs a clique streak. The chosen footwear suggests the sneaker streaker. The possibilities appear limitless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 1, 1974 | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

...time. Nostradamus knew the trick: his writings were cryptic, and interpreters can read any number of different predictions into a single passage. Modern seers like Jeane Dixon are also generally vague, and they bolster their visions by keeping an observant eye on human nature and events. Sybil Leek, for instance, predicted the likelihood of an assassination attempt on Presidential Candidate George Wallace?but many thoughtful and apprehensive laymen could have done the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Occult: A Substitute Faith | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

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