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...twelve typical stages in the pair-formation process of a young male and female." Defying his own boredom, Morris compiles the obvious, the faintly surprising, the wildly pretentious and the erroneous: "Anyone who has enjoyed the exotic luxuries of body intimacies with a tame cheetah, lion or tiger will know that . . . they are patted, not stroked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skin Game | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

...country rather than on external influences, either military or diplomatic. Hence, there is good reason to encourage the early inauguration of a political process within South Viet Nam in which all significant political groups can participate and to allow that process rather than a diplomatic conference to have the lion's share in determining the future of the country...

Author: By Samuel P. Huntington, | Title: Viet Nam: The Bases of Accommodation | 2/23/1972 | See Source »

...Olympic motto: "Citius, altius, fortius" (swifter, higher, stronger). Indeed, when the competition ended after ten days and 35 events, the Swiss had skied swifter, the Japanese had jumped higher, the Americans had come back stronger-and the Russians and East Germans had walked off with the lion's share of medals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympics: Citius, Altius, Fortius | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

Herbert X. Blyden, 35, describes his life as "the story of a lion who is not really a rebel-study the history of the lion and you will get the message." He was born, he notes, under the sign of Leo. That was in St. Thomas in 1936. His family was "lower middle class," he says, and it came apart when he was three. An aunt raised him, along with 13 of his cousins, and he turned into a troublemaker. "I was sent to a house-you know, for incorrigible boys. Evidently they saw Attica in advance. But they didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: A Prisoner of Our Time | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

ALMOST every night in Washington seems to be Henry Kissinger night. His presence enlivens any occasion. This season's social lion, Soviet Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, asked for an invitation to a party that Marion Javits was throwing for Kissinger. In the course of the evening, Yevtushenko had a private conversation with Kissinger, then slipped off his wristwatch and pressed it into Kissinger's hand-confirming who knows what international arrangement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Henry Kissinger Off Duty | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

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