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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Gold Rush to Golgotha | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

...avoiding propaganda. He refuses to take sides. Hung overhears an American defending his country's participation, and later, when he is taken to a political meeting, listens to a member of the N.L.F. explain its ideology. Both speakers are persuasive, and both promise victory. For Coutard, obviously, politics pale beside a single human imperative. In Vietnamese, hoa-binh means "peace." · Jay Cocks

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Orphans of the War | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

TIRANA (pop. 190,000) is probably the bleakest capital in the world. It is a city of dilapidated houses of pale red brick sometimes trimmed in yellow or faded blue, and ramshackle brick apartment buildings, of wooden street-corner stalls selling fruits, soft drinks and sweets, and of a few shops that feature more slogans than merchandise. The cafes are eternally packed with workers in shirtsleeves who sip Turkish coffee and pass the time in endless conversation in apparent defiance of the Communist Party's credo of hard work. It is a pedestrian's heaven; Albania is quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Fear That Guards the Vineyard | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

Slightly Monkish. The birthday was 40 years ago, though Brendel looks older; his high-domed, intellectual forehead is balding from two directions, and his pale eyes and thick glasses give him af slightly monkish appearance. Says Iris Brendel, his beautiful, Argentine-born wife, "We once received a letter from an unknown admirer which said, I only know you from your records. Are you as beautiful as you are talented?' We sent back a picture and that settled that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Elegant Thunderer | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

...Long before ecology became fashionable, a Finnish mink breeder named Emil Hoglund began his drive to protect spotted cats. Finding a mutant female mink with pale brown spots on its white fur, he carefully bred it with a normal mink. After nine years of inbreeding, Hoglund had produced a new strain: a deeply spotted mink with a strong resemblance to the jaguar, which has been hunted to near extinction for its luxurious pelt. Manhattan furrier Reiss & Fabrizio has received the first of the "Fin-Jaguar" furs from the Danish firm Keppo, and has the coats on sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The DDT Eaters And Other Eco-Centrics | 8/9/1971 | See Source »

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