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Spain attracted men like George Orwell. In Homage to Catalonia Orwell writes of his ecstasy on entering Barcelona in the early days of the war. The city was then controlled by the Anarchists, who set on instituting socialist revolution simultaneously with waging the war against Franco. Leaving behind the stultifying...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: The Bell Tolls for Thee | 8/6/1974 | See Source »

Thomas Wyman, 44. Following complaints from black militants, Polaroid Corp.'s senior vice president and general manager developed a widely emulated policy for his firm's South African operation that includes a black education foundation and executive training. "We may not know for 25 years whether our pathetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

Still, the combination seems curious. Citroën is obviously ripe for merger. The company in 1972 earned only a pathetic $6.3 million profit on $2 billion sales; last year it nearly doubled its earnings, but it recently announced that it expects a loss in 1974. The company has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Curious Engagement | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

After finding a suitable area--mostly two-family jobs where people might be conned by a smooth talking hustler into buying a $500 set of encyclopedias sight unseen--Bill turned out not to be much of a hustler. In fact, he was a pathetic salesman. He wasn't exactly of...

Author: By Charles B. Straus iii, | Title: The Year Off | 6/11/1974 | See Source »

Klute has the best male-to-female putdown line in recent movies, when Donald Sutherland says "That's so pathetic" to Jane Fonda. The best female-to-male one is probably when Glenda Jackson lays it on Oliver Reed in the hotel room near the end of Women in Love...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: THE SCREEN | 5/16/1974 | See Source »

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