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Libya is already subsidizing Egypt out of oil incomes at a rate of $55 million annually, and Cairo is hungry for more. Libyans have been heard to murmur, moreover, that the Egyptian technicians sent to Tripoli last year are "just foreigners­as bad as the Italians, the British or the Americans." In view of such feelings, the will-o'-the-wisp of Arab unity may prove as elusive as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Eglibdan? Sudeglib? Or Libdangypt? | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

Yesterday's spectators, most of them young and black, numbered about 25. They were searched as they entered the courtroom, and they remained generally quiet during the proceedings. At one point, Seale raised his hand to quiet a murmur which arose in the audience in response to a statement by one member of the jury panel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trial of Seale and Huggins Begins; Defense and State Question Jurors | 11/18/1970 | See Source »

...they sat in the main room of the club ("The Body Shop") amid racing pennants and rows of hubcaps, there was little exuberance-hardly more than a steady murmur rising and falling to the sounds of Eddie Barden's quartet...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: Hawk and Dove | 11/4/1970 | See Source »

...designs are they? The designer, a man, answers, "You don't like my designs? Fine. There are plenty of women out there who do," but we know he is as terribly trapped as we. The mannequin cowers in the closet. And Mary responds, chanting, "Wow. Wow," as the men murmur. "Pose, Smile, Change," and, "Bang, I'm a man." Aili screams for help...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: How to Make a Woman at the Harvard Epworth Church every Fri. and Sat. | 10/30/1970 | See Source »

THERE is the past as well as the present in Kate Millett's declaration, "Women's Liberation is my life." In a voice barely above a murmur, trembling at times with emotion, she speaks of the experiences that produced Sexual Politics with the same articulate rage that distinguishes her book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Liberation of Kate Millet | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

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