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...patriots). Don't panic, TIME. Your magazine will still be on the newsstands when people again say: "Spiro T. who?" In the meantime, you should adopt the attitude of the Geological Journal, which doesn't become the least bit upset when someone says it is a Commie rag because it maintains that the world is round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 28, 1971 | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

...protesters began to protect themselves against the chill. Blankets were unfolded, and packing crates were broken up for firewood. The fervor of resistance seemed to relax, revealing a band of people who were young, tired and cold. A few tried a couple of verses of Viet Nam Rag, then retreated into subdued silence; hardly anyone knew the words. Then someone put a harmonica to his mouth, and soon they were singing, like so many Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Inside the Woodstockade | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Congressmen arriving for the noon rollcall yesterday at the Capitol must have wondered whether they were being button-holed by lobbying antiwar veterans or besieged by a rag-tailed army of madmen...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Lobby in Congress | 4/20/1971 | See Source »

...when Boston comes to town. In one of the many scraps during their Stanley Cup opener, Bad Boy Defenseman Don Awrey twisted the neck of Canadien Marc Tardif's sweater so tightly that Tardif's breathing was cut off and he sank to the ice like a rag doll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Icehouse Gang | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

...Brazil, a country with a military government that knows exactly how free the press should be, nine cartoonists and editors of the satirical weekly O Pas-quim ("The Rag"), have all been in prison for over a month. Uncharged. The tabloid has gone on publishing, blandly stating on its front page that it has been "completely automated." Last week Brazilian police tired of the joke, suspended "The Rag," then lifted the ban without explanation. The staffers remain in jail; "The Rag" remains "automated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Censorship, North and South | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

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