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...cornpone millionaire from the Ozarks. Such a flash of recognition would, of course, never persuade any court of Wolfe's guilt. But Bone's pal Cutter is convinced-perhaps because he associates the Wolfe type with those who sent him to Viet Nam. He devises a reckless plan to blackmail the millionaire. Bone objects that "extortion is a crime." Shrugs Cutter: "So's murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Friend and Foil | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...very building where the mysterious Legionnaires' Disease may have been contracted, doctors last week gathered for a symposium, eating lunch and sipping beverages, apparently unconcerned about being stricken with the deadly malady. The physicians had assembled in Philadelphia's Bellevue Stratford Hotel not as an act of reckless bravado but to exchange all the latest information about the cause of the ailment that left 29 people dead and struck 151 others last summer after an American Legion convention at the hostelry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The 30th Fatality | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

Buckley argues that Moynihan "believes in a federal solution for every problem," and that "for the past 25 years we have been witnessing an almost reckless movement of authority away from local communities, where voters and taxpayers have some degree of control over what happens, to Washington." The economy will improve, he says, when federal spending and taxes are brought under sufficient control to encourage private investment. Meanwhile, he favors a number of innovative ideas-like factoring inflation into the income tax code-to protect families of modest means. Says Buckley. "I'm the person looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Buckley v. Moynihan | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

...hopes of stirring an intensely subjective response from the audience, he forsakes lucidity and precision. The movie is reckless, a quality that is both exhilarating and, finally, defeating. Like Munch's art, however, it has an embattled, assaultive power that cannot be shaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shades of Madness | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

Marry a white or even whistle at one. (Emmett Till, 14, from Chicago, was beaten and shot to death in Mississippi in 1955 for such a "crime," and other blacks were routinely beaten for "reckless eyeballing," i.e., looking at a white female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Things You Didn't Do, Boy | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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