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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite Washington's "two-China" policy, Mao Tse-tung's regime may ultimately enter the U.N. on its own terms-as the one and only Chinese delegation. There is in fact only one seat marked "China" at the U.N. The U.S. effort to seat two delegations in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Paving the Way for Peking's Entry | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

The NIH team became interested in the condition when baffled private physicians began referring individual patients to neurologists. The Government scientists studied 35 of the 3,000 Americans known to suffer from idiopathic hypogeusia. The doctors confirmed the symptoms by placing drops of sour, sweet, salt and bitter solutions on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tortured Tastes | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

For all their griping about what might be called the Pain-Am Games, the U.S. team did manage to win heavily in track and women's gymnastics. After the first of two weeks of competition, the U.S. had won 131 medals as compared to 73 for second-place Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Pain-Am Games | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

Surprisingly for a film biography of a man who is still alive (the real Knievel performed in Madison Square Garden a month ago), the hero is portrayed as an egomaniac, a compulsive worrier and a shameless searcher after publicity. Marvin Chomsky's direction is pedestrian, but the script (by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dual Exhaust | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

Gratitude. Until now, Japan has maintained a two-China policy, resolutely refusing to grant diplomatic recognition to the Communist regime. In part this stems from U.S. pressure, but it also reflects a feeling of gratitude toward the Chiang Kai-shek regime, whose magnanimous treatment of the defeated Japanese after World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: A Bad Dream Come True | 8/9/1971 | See Source »

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