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Called "Moussik," a diminutive of Moshe, by his mother, Dayan was 18 before his first girl friend persuaded him to change from short pants to long trousers as the mark of a man. A year later, another girl turned down a proposal of marriage from the kibbutz-born Dayan because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Person Behind the Patch | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

Hot Pants. The sense of outrage seemed a little tired, a little artificial, but it was not confined to the right. Capitol Hill was boiling all week. The normally mild-mannered Senate minority leader, Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott, spoke scornfully of "hotpants principalities" that had opposed the U.S. He and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The China Vote: Choler on the Right | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

Fashionable Idea. The changes are more than symbolic. The government has promised new regulations that will effectively eliminate the hated "pass laws" that require all blacks to carry identity cards and severely restrict their movement; it was during a protest against these laws that police opened fire at Sharpeville in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Apartheid: Cracks in the Fa | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

Actually it took five, but promptly at one o'clock Rudel was at the podium raising his baton-or, rather, a thin white knitting needle-to start the Carmen overture. His instructions to the orchestra were brief and to the point: "Trumpets, didn't you notice I slowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Julius the Cool | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

Loneliness, aloneness and loss are his particular loves. There are occasional notes of tinny sentimentality and studied coyness. But there are also funny fantasies casually conjured out of sad realities. For example, a depositor, fated always to select the slowest line at the bank, finds himself behind Siamese twins: "One...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Easy Writer | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

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