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...morning exercise, a cockney occupant told me cheerfully, They don't often let their victim go too early, mate.' But at 10 o'clock I was taken before the chubby commandant, who blandly asked if I had had a good night. Then he told me that I would be put on the noon flight out of Addis Ababa. He also asked when I might be back in Ethiopia. I replied that I thought that it probably rested a good deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Fighting Rebels And Royalists | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...former U.S. Congressman and Goldwater running mate, who disappeared into obscurity and Lockport, N.Y., after the 1964 G.O.P. debacle, was picked by American Express as a log ical pitchman for its new advertising campaign. The theme: "American Express tells them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Guess Who? | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

Extramarital Sex. As surveyors of the sexual scene, Masters and Johnson seem to be neoconservatives, impatient with moralists and simple-minded sexual acrobats alike. Group sex and mate swapping are fine for some, they say, but very few can handle them. Extramarital sex is not deplorable, if both partners approve, but it should be used only as a last resort to save a marriage. Exactly under what conditions this would be appropriate is left fuzzy by the authors. The clear argument of the book is that sex should mean commitment, "developing a long-range relationship rather than concentrating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Out of the Lab | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

...careful, buying a stereo can be a lot like finding a mate: you can spend much time shopping around, take what looks best, and then, once home, discover you're stuck with a lemon...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: Choose Your Stereo Carefully | 12/14/1974 | See Source »

...take strong exception to your position that such diverse sexual life-styles as swinging (mate swapping), group sex and bisexuality can be grouped with open marriage as declining "odd" forms of experimentation. To compare the fad of swinging, which has affected at most 2% of married couples, with sexually and emotionally open, co-marital relationships is simply an overgeneralization. It is probable that singlehood with multiple sexual and love relationships, open marriage and traditional monogamy are already the major life-style choices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 9, 1974 | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

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