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With all its contributing sources of energy and intelligence, this Schweyk advances its premise farther than any overview of the text might suggest would be possible. The amount of didactic mileage concealed in a series of simple comic vignettes pitting a group of small-time Czechs against a team of...

Author: By Peter Jaszi, | Title: Schweyk in the Second World War | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

THE reliance upon unions puts Mrs. Mitchell in an awkward position; for, undeniably, labor will supply a great majority of the Wallace vote in this election. The awkwardness can become schizophrenic. In New York, for example, Albert Shanker has led his powerful teachers' union in a six-week-old strike...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Charlene Mitchell | 11/5/1968 | See Source »

Missouri's Lieutenant Governor Thomas F. Eagleton, 39, has been running so hard that he has lost 16 pounds since January, and his trousers sag around his hips. A moody six-footer who chain-smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, Eagleton toppled scandal-tainted Senator Edward Long in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE SENATE: Gains for the G.O.P., but Still Democratic and Liberal | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

This minuscule exercise in social action (only 9,000 corpsmen now serve abroad) is unlikely to supply the demand for activists. There are other sources in U.S. institutions-families, schools, colleges, corporations. All ought to be doing more to spur individual initiative. A case could be made for pitting every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE POWERLESS | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

The city's passionate possessors snap up everything from Chinese vases to French furniture, but the biggest and bounciest collections are those of contemporary art. Fanciers of today's -and tomorrow's-painting, sculpture, kinetics and whole environments wade into galleries with eyes, minds and checkbooks wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collectors: A. Life of Involvement | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

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