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Reed himself keeps prancing on his drum, preaching the glories of HooDoo culture. It is a welcome alternative to the bludgeoning lectures of LeRoi (Imamu Baraka) Jones. Or is it? The club is a quicker and more merciful weapon than the feather. -R.Z. Sheppard

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Fiction | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...form of "recycled" energy, methane gas emanating from horse manure. There are endless parades, one of which featured a large plastic whale to represent that overhunted species. Traffic barely creeps around the main conference halls in the old and the new Parliament buildings. Specially painted bicycles offer a quicker and more environmentally respectable way of getting about, and even Maurice Strong, the conference's secretary-general, took one out for a spin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Woodstockholm | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...chances for reelection in November. For Nixon's host, the Moscow summit is also something of a test, for the talks are the key to his policy of East-West détente. Brezhnev does not have an election in the fall -but he would face an even quicker verdict from his colleagues in the Politburo, of which he is primus inter pares, if the talks were a failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: The Summit: A World at the Crossroads | 5/29/1972 | See Source »

...will need at least 20 million barrels of oil per day by 1980, and that domestic production apart from Alaska will be only half that much. As for the rival route across Canada, he declared that the $3 billion, 770-mile Alaska line will be cheaper and quicker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Two Key Decisions | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

...Leroy of the Church of What's Happening Now. The Rev, as Flip calls him, is a hot-gospeling preacher whose collection cup runneth over-into his pockets. There is Freddy the Playboy, the swinger with a quick eye for an ebony leg and an even quicker line of honeyed jive. There is Sonny, the White House janitor, Henry Kissinger's Doppelganger and the only sane voice in the Washington Establishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When You're Hot, You're Hot | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

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