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...neat trick getting the Arabs to pay the price of Western racism, but is it reasonable to expect them to stand quietly aside, as the Israelis help themselves to more and more Arab land whenever their expanding population dictates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1973 | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

...neat kind of a time," Sam says. "Nice things happen. Hundreds of people will stop to see what I'm doing and they'll tell me how much they like it. Then they'll go off and send some more people over to wherever I'm working. The people don't criticize like the experts do, they're only enthusiastic...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: Chalking the Streets | 10/18/1973 | See Source »

Most of the newcomers who flocked to settle in the state believed that if a desert town was a good place to live, an oasis was even better. So they planted and watered thick lawns of Bermuda grass, neat privet hedges and thousands of shade trees, notably the mulberry. As a result, Arizona's cities now seem almost as lush and lovely as any East Coast suburb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Greening of Arizona | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

...Testament Missionary Fellowship. The group's three-hour Sunday services, in a Manhattan apartment, include robust hymn fests and something called "dancing in the Spirit," a sprightly, solo two-step that expresses their spiritual joy. Otherwise, the fellowship is self-consciously prim. Men wear short haircuts and neat suits; women wear dresses that fall below the knee. Members eschew all nonmarital sex, hold regular jobs, tend to live close to one another as if in some kind of lay monastery. But critics say they are insufferably elitist, consider themselves more enlightened than other Christians, and generally see the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Open Season on Sects | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

Other young artists are unwilling to conform to the imperious (although recently somewhat modified) Disney dress and hair codes, or to go through the Mickey Mouse employee indoctrination at the "universities" at Disneyland and Disney World. At these "universities," most of the company's 20,000 clean, neat and good-looking employees are schooled in Traditions I, II, III and IV in the Way of Walt. (In the late 1950s, one of those employees was future Presidential Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Disney After Walt Is a Family Affair | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

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