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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novelist wife, were also thrilled by the panorama, but much of it was familiar to them. As one of LIFE's photographer-reporter teams during World War II, they had covered China being captured in 1942 in the Philippines by the Japanese and sent to Shanghai aboard a prison ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 23, 1978 | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...Mydanses were repatriated a year later, and Carl went on to serve LIFE as one of the war's finest photographers. When he returned to Shanghai on the Explorer, 35 years after his release from the prison camp, Mydans found the city's skyline to be precisely as he had remembered it. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 23, 1978 | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...neither Flaherty nor his G.O.P. opponent, Richard Thornburgh, is calling for a state tax cut, since Pennsylvania is running a small deficit. Instead, both are proposing constitutional amendments to limit state spending. As U.S. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania, Thornburgh sent some 200 gangsters and corrupt public officials to prison. But one of these, Numbers Racketeer Anthony Grosso, is getting revenge. He is ostentatiously supporting Thornburgh and distributing literature calling Flaherty a "nitwit." Complains Thornburgh: "Sabotage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tax-Slashing Campaign | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...that there are some virtues in the straightforward approach of someone like Peckinpah to violent material. In Midnight Express one imagines the director peering through the viewfinder and murmuring, "Goyaesque," or worse, "Ken Russell." Anyway, the continual aestheticizing of squalor and of brutality, not to mention the poeticizing of prison homosexuality-a necessity perhaps for prisoners but not, surely, a joyous compensation for most of them-finally makes one very irritated indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ugly Trip | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

ENGAGED. James Earl Ray, 50, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., serving a 99-year jail term near Knoxville, Tenn.; and Anna Sandhu, 32, courtroom artist. Explained Sandhu, who met Ray last year during a hearing on his prison escape: "I'm marrying him because I love him and because I know he's not a murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 16, 1978 | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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