Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of cover stories and other major articles that have already run in TIME. Kate Millett appeared on the cover in 1970 as a symbol of the feminist revolution. Last March we devoted an entire special issue to The American Woman. We have also had cover stories on the plight of the homosexual in America, on sex and the teenager, Sex Researchers Masters and Johnson and on the sex explosion in the arts...
...only in a wholly unrealistic goal-an end to the monarchy, which even in its postwar, watered-down form remains the country's most revered institution. As Murakoshi sees it, the Emperor symbolizes and enforces the status quo in the Japanese system, and is thus responsible for the plight of the buraku-min. "Just as Japan created a superhuman being," Murakoshi charges angrily, "so it created, by necessity, a class of subhumans...
...novel currently on the bestseller lists be financially "desperate"? That is Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn's own word for his own situation. His books are banned in the U.S.S.R. and his royalties are piling up in Switzerland, where he cannot get at them. As word of his plight spread, some unusual Samaritans offered to help. First came Hollywood Writer Albert Maltz, once jailed and blacklisted for refusing to tell a congressional committee whether he was a Communist. Maltz said that the Soviets owe him some $34,000 in royalties on his writing (The Cross and the Arrow), and should...
Like the thousands of wives and parents who share her plight, Mrs. Rander has endured years of frustrated effort in her husband's behalf. Three years ago, at Nixon's invitation, she went to Washington with other P.O.W. wives to discuss what the President termed "the distressing situation of our captured and missing servicemen." Since then both she and her daughters have exchanged letters with the White House, desperate pleas answered with slender hopes...
...Bombay's poor. There is little work to be found, and in the past few months, with no money and often no shelter, many have had to beg. Accustomed to providing for themselves, they are humiliated and bitter that the government has not done anything to alleviate their plight. Since most of them have no money, they cannot even take advantage of the "fair price shops"-so called because they sell below the regular market price-set up by New Delhi to distribute food stocks...