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...lived for 20 years in Miami but is moving to avoid busing: "I have no intention of letting my daughter Bambi be bused away to a black or white school. I'd do anything to stop it." Complains Ronald Stroud, harbormaster at Fort Lauderdale's Pier 66: "Massive busing is a disgrace to this nation. It destroys neighborhoods." Agrees William Langer, president of Miami Electricians Local 349: "Busing is not the American way of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Grumpy Mood of Florida Voters | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

...shipped to Port Elizabeth, N.J., from Le Havre. She found 96 pounds of pure heroin secreted behind the fire wall of the bus. The bus's owner, Roger de Louette, had acted slightly nervous when filling out customs forms; he was arrested as he waited on the pier. De Louette claimed that he had been a spy with the SDECE. After being fired, he needed money badly, and accepted an offer to earn $60,000 for shipping the heroin. The man who set up the shipment, De Louette said, was one Colonel Paul Fournier, until recently the official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: The French Connection | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...government and ordered to leave the country (15 were out of Britain when the expulsion orders came, and 20 have since left by other means). It was hardly a classy exit. For two hours in the autumn fog, glum parents and children clutching Teddy bears waited on the Thames pier while the creaking, 35-year-old Russian cruise ship Baltika, scheduled for scrapping next year, was readied for departure. Nerves were ragged. As press cameras clicked away, one Russian shouted: "Stop those stupid things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIES: A Not-So-Classy Exit | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

DECAMERON Pier Paolo Pasolini, an avowed Marxist who makes pallid films of Christianity (The Gospel According to St. Matthew; Theorem), has taken on more than he can eschew. Using ten of Boccaccio's tales, Pasolini twits the church by showing lascivious nuns, self-mocking ghosts, corrupt priests and finally the trials of the painter Giotto, played by Pasolini himself. Giotto was a cornerstone of Renaissance painting; Pasolini plays him as an interior decorator. Boccaccio was famous for his ribaldry; Pasolini is notorious for his vapidity. To adapt the Decameron successfully, a film maker must come to his senses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festival (Contd.) | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

Divorced. Vic Damone, 43, Brooklyn-born supper-club crooner; and Judy Rawlins, 35, onetime television actress; after seven years of marriage, three children (he has a fourth child by Screen Star Pier Angeli); in Hollywood. Though he revealed in court that he is nearly broke and is considering bankruptcy. Damone agreed to support payments of $2,100 per month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 12, 1971 | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

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