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Civic leaders have responded to the crisis with their customary combativeness. "This is a street fight," Brooklyn Borough President Sebastian Leone told Mayor Abraham Beame at a budget strategy session. "You've got to put your opponents up against the wall." "You're right," responded the embattled mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: How New York City Lurched to the Brink | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

Needed Lift. What has made most of the difference is some 200 huge murals on the sides of once drab buildings. The idea of the wall paintings-which include bright abstract designs, realistic scenes of barrio life, mannered portraits of saints, Aztec warriors and campesino heroes-was conceived by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Mural Message | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

In contrast to the jaunty Stans, a subdued and sorrowful LaRue last week learned the penalty he must pay for conspiring to obstruct justice in the Watergate coverup. The mild-mannered Mississippi oil heir had admitted taking part in the payoffs to the burglars and had testified for the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: No. 3: Stans | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

Beckett's peculiar genius is to set up such Hobson's choices while squeezing them for all the farce they will yield. His is a Buster Keaton, deadpan humor that shrivels in the explaining. Mercier and Camier is as hilarious, in gasps, as anything he has written. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Preparing for Godot | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

Lackluster Image. The kidnapers said that Lorenz was a "representative of the reactionaries and the big bosses." In fact, Lorenz is a mild-mannered and scholarly politician who has often been criticized by his fellow C.D.U. members for being too much of a moderate. Despite his lackluster low-profile image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Living Dangerously in Berlin | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

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