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...impasse"?a technical term that would serve to dissolve the national contract talks and pit individual companies against union locals. The Administration also began to encourage executives in other industries to call their coal-company peers, urging settlement. Finally the Governors of afflicted states joined the cam paign, and mine owners complained that none-too-subtle threats were coming from state regulatory officials. Among them: that holdouts might face sudden delays in obtaining permits for strip mining and other operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter Acts--Just inTime | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

However, in his role as director of a play that resembles a massive military cam paign as much as it does a drama, Van Bridge deserves the rank of four-star general. Everybody involved in Man and Superman merits praise without stint, for they have taken one of the masterworks of the 20th century theater and brought it to effulgent life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: GBS: Holy Terrorist of Iconoclasm | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...nostalgic glimpses of World War II movies - Casablanca, The Purple Heart, The Longest Day - are equally disconcerting. The film interweaves clips indiscriminately, as if James Mason as Rommel in The Desert Rats were as valid a reflection of the African cam paign as authentic shots of Rommel himself. Director Winslow's cheapest shot is a reverse-action sequence depicting the German retreat: to the tune of Get Back, Hitler is made to cha cha cha back and forth like the cat in the Purina Cat Chow commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Battle Song | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

Harris is getting a lot of overnight invitations. This not only gratifies his populist instincts but cuts down on cam paign expenses. Harris will not be able to hide much - whether he eats crack ers in bed or is cranky before his morn ing orange juice. There is something to be said for a little distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fred Harris Slept Here | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...second Watergate grand jury, sworn in last August to deal with an antitrust action against ITT, illegal cam paign contributions and other misdeeds, is having similar problems. Last week the jury's foreman, Julian G. Murphy, 54, an independent insurance broker, said that he was quitting because his in come had "dropped at least $1,500 a month, and my business was going down the drain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Trials of the Watergate Jury | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

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