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At Harvard Square's Janus Film Festival the films change every day, and every one is a classic--the most notable being Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game (1939), brilliant film both verbally and visually, that gyrates between starkly powerful drama and very funny comedy. Rules of the Game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: screen | 10/25/1973 | See Source »

Eventually, the physical differences between the two types of lymphocytes may help scientists determine how each performs its specific duties. For now, however, recognition of the physical difference gives doctors a potential new tool in diagnosing disease. In blood samples from healthy people, about 20% of the lymphocytes are B...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Close Look at Lymphocytes | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

So far, no firm scientific evidence exists to prove or dis prove pyramid power. Laymen who experiment may be frustrated because precision is required. Pyramids must be aligned precisely on magnetic north. Being close to windows, radiators, fluorescent lights, radios, TV sets and other appliances can queer the effect. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Pyramid Power | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

The Carrera-Sheraton Hotel, which overlooks the Presidential Palace, is a bulky brown 17-story building with what at least one travel brochure optimistically describes as "tastefully decorated rooms." At the height of the fighting on Tuesday, Carrera Manager Luis Miguel ("Mike") Gallegos−upon whose thin breast every one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Coup: The View from the Carrera | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

Hughes does not mention Watergate. Late in his book, with great precision and restraint, he analyzes the follies of Nixon and Johnson over Viet Nam. Among them: misinterpretation of history, extravagance of purpose, blindness to cost, arrogance, deceit, disdain for Congress and the twisting of patriotism - this last, Richard Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sisyphus in Washington | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

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