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...trouble with plots of this sort is that plotters like Sir John lose all touch with reality. They are so busy hatching refinements of their villainy that they seal themselves off from the daily verities that nourish and sustain the rest of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Iron Pyrite | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...future, Ryther also plans to raise abalone as well as brine shrimp, which could be used to nourish rainbow trout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Squeezing More Out of the Seas | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

Hollywood Television Theatre. The second offering this week. Tonight, a comedy called "Nourish the Beast." Ch. 53, 8:30 p.m. 1 1/2 hours...

Author: By F. Briney, | Title: TELEVISION | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

...Montagnards never got along too well with the Vietnamese or wanted to assimilate with the rest of the country. In North Vietnam, tribesmen have their own autonomous areas, where local government and local schools work to nourish traditional roots. Outsiders have rarely shown much interest in them, except for military purposes. The American army in the 1960s sponsored and published several long and purportedly comprehensive studies of the tribes, which were relatively friendly to the United States. Along with the romantic accounts of French travelers (some tribesmen fought with the French against the Vietminh) the Army's studies are probably...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Savage, Lovable Faces | 4/11/1974 | See Source »

...piece of meat," Sun Yat-sen once said. "And the whole world wants to take a bit of it." At the 1973 Chinese Communist Party conference sixty years later, Chou Enlai echoed this statement of the Father of the Republic, but added that those who might seek to nourish themselves on China's wealth will find that the piece of meat has grown tough. This new toughness may well be the greatest change the People's Republic has caused--one Nationalist who visited China last year grudgingly admitted, "For the first time in over a century, Chinese can hold their...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: China and Foreign Devils | 12/12/1973 | See Source »

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