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...such as we could not dream of after World War II; we couldn't dream of this when Eisenhower was President. It wasn't the right time. It wasn't the right time when Kennedy was there. But now the time may have come, and we must seize the moment???seize the moment in our relationships with the superpowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: An Interview with the President: The Jury Is Out | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...week along the 1,300-mile frontier was plainly big enough to raise the specter of a major conflagration on the subcontinent. The presence of Indian troops on Pakistan's soil escalated the dispute between the two nations to the point where full-scale war could erupt at any moment???a war that could also cause an uncomfortable confrontation of the major powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: India and Pakistan: Poised for War | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

So?at the moment???it seems. Dr. Ralph Metzner, a psychologist with Stanford University's counseling and testing center, uses astrology in a quarter of his cases in the same way Jung did. He thinks that it will soon be "an adjunct to psychology and psychiatry," not because it is truer but because it is "much more complex and sophisticated than present psychological maps or systems." Graduate Student Michael Katz led a weekly astrology class last semester as part of Stanford's introductory psychology course, and New York University recently invited Astrologer Shirley Spencer to lecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Astrology: Fad and Phenomenon | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...went in to sit around the great table in the Cabinet room. What passed there in the bosom of the happy family is not of public record. But the President's "spokesmen" vouched that it was not of great moment???rather a general accounting of the ten sons' stewardship to their father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Reunited | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...CINDER BUGGY?Garet Garrett?Dutton ($2.00). Wrought iron made New Damascus great, in its moment???wrought iron and two men, Aaron Breakspeare and Enoch Gib. Aaron, the popular, engaging, lovable idealist; Enoch the dour and practical, well-hated, well-feared. The men clashed over two things? a woman and steel. Popular Aaron won the woman but his dream of a steel age failed?it was still too early. Enoch clung to iron?and when Aaron's son, John Breakspeare, brought his father back to New Damascus, dead, the clash between practical Enoch and young Breakspeare, between iron and steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Centaur* | 11/12/1923 | See Source »

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