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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indochina, to be the greatest mass murderer--well, since World War II, that's for sure. One of the greatest in history, but to do it all through sounding like a serious person, whereas Rostow managed to sound like a bubblehead and a pompous ass whenever he opened his mouth. I think Kissinger played one indispensible role, snowing the press. Now, are they dumb? Are they stupid? It's an Ellsberg rule--Ellsberg's Law of Bureaucracy, I'm not a bureaucratic theorist but what I learned in the Pentagon was: Anyone can be as dumb...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: Haiphong, Kissinger, and William Colby | 11/12/1974 | See Source »

...mouth of a cave Hanging your orphan's rags I saw you in the stalls, in the streets Warming your self by the fire I saw you in the lamentations of misery In blood dripping from the sun In the salt of the sea and the sand and yet You were as beautiful as the earth As children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Palestinian Songs of Liberation | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

...suite, where the air-conditioning ducts were sealed to protect the famous Callas cords, the star spoke of her on-again, off-again career. "At a certain point in my life I had wanted to dominate my voice," she explained. "It was not enough that I should open my mouth to sing. That's where I got into trouble." Her troubles are apparently over-at least for the moment. Callas vowed to repay Japanese hospitality by returning to Tokyo next fall in Tosca, her first full-length opera appearance since bowing out of New York's Metropolitan Opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 11, 1974 | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

...Money Player is scandalous. When he was not involved in grand or petty larceny, the self-styled "Bad Boy of Table Tennis" could fill his wallet and his mouth by legitimate means. At his peak, Reisman was the best hard-racket man in the world. Today, at 44, he can be beaten only by players using trick spins off the modern soft-sponge paddle. As the champ says, his kind of Ping Pong is entirely unlike the metronomic rec-room game familiar to most Americans. World-class players can propel the ball at speeds exceeding 100 m.p.h.; facing them across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Lifelong Hustle | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

Indeed, the bewildered Tigers began to muddle about the goal mouth after the switcheroo had been completed, and an opportunistic Steve Hines (number 25) took advantage of the situation to put the Crimson on the scoreboard...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Booters Dump Princeton, 2-0 | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

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