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...League sports information directors predict that Dartmouth will retain the League football championship in '71, its second successive crown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Directors Pick Dartmouth in '71 | 4/13/1971 | See Source »

...deal with all the circumstances of America's illness. I don't want to hide my art. The first mistake was going to a white institution and asking for something." But B.E.C.C.'s Benny Andrews disagrees. "We've made our point," he says. "I predict that within two or three years there'll be a black curator walking around the Whitney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In a Black Bind | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

...billion-dollar gamble, the industry's biggest since repeal. The prime plungers: Schenley, Seagrams, National Distillers, American Distilling and Publicker. They are betting that the drink will appeal to changing American taste, especially among young people and women, who generally demand a "light" liquor. No one can even predict with certainty how light whisky will taste until it has matured a legal minimum of four years; in its present unripened state it somewhat resembles whisky-flavored vodka. Prices will range between the cost of a popular Scotch like Johnnie Walker Red Label and an inexpensive blend like Imperial. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Billion-Dollar Gamble in Whisky | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

...toward the star's center of gravity. If the star is massive enough, the imploding gases gather such momentum as they fall that they virtually crush themselves out of existence at the stellar center. Using the formulas of Einstein's general theory of relativity, more recent theorists predict that as the star shrinks toward oblivion, the familiar rules of physics may be violated. Its mass becomes infinitely dense, yet occupies no space. Its gravitational pull becomes so intense that no light or other radiation can escape from it. Thus the star cannot be detected by conventional observations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Much Ado About Nothing | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

...those young enough to be considered serious contenders for leadership are concerned, no one can predict exactly how they would behave once the power was finally in their hands. Alexander Dub?ek, for example, had no reputation for liberalism before he came to power in Prague. By training and temperament, Mazurov, Shelepin and the others appear no more inventive or flexible than Brezhnev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Soviet Union: The Risks of Reform | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

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