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...also signed by two lesser-known scholars, Historian Roy Medvedev and Physicist Valentin Turchin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Blueprint for a Better System | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...lesser-known privileges of being Mayor of a City (or a governor or President for that matter) is issuing proclamations. Under this practice, which dates back at least to Roman times, a public official issues a statement setting aside a day when the citizens in his jurisdiction will honor a particularly worthy cause...

Author: By Walter J. Sullivnn mayor, | Title: Bread A Proclamation... | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...only can, but is. Some men, of course, are old hands with a bag: Designer Rudi Gernreich has a complete wardrobe of them. Others, like Sammy Davis Jr., Jazz Trumpeter Hugh Masakela, Actors Jim Brown and Elliott Gould, Manhattan Publisher Jerry Mason and a host of lesser-known straight men, are busily following suit. Hippies have long favored the style, and members of a Houston contingent not only wear them but do a thriving business making and selling their brown suede "stash bags" for from $3 to $5. Industrial Designer Darrell Howe likes the fashion so much he is designing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Their New Bag | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...AFRAID of a sweeping tour of our nation's lesser-known fishing holes...

Author: By Steven W. Stahler, | Title: An Attempt to Clarify What Exactly It Is That Richard Brautigan Says About Trout | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

They must shield prospective targets against thunderous shock waves, searing heat, deadly X rays, gamma rays and neutrons. They must also guard against a lesser-known product of atomic explosions called electromagnetic pulse, or EMP. In a recent Washington speech, Senator Henry Jackson, atomic-weapons specialist of the Armed Services Committee, insisted that despite five years of research, EMP still poses a "serious problem" to the nation's communications, radar and missile systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Weapons: The Danger of EMP | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

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