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...people of West Pakistan. " The almost constant air raids over Islamabad, Karachi and other cities have brought deep apprehension, even panic," TIME'S Louis Kraar cabled from Rawalpindi. "It is not massive bombing, just constant harassment ? though there have been several hundred civilian casualties. Thus when the planes roar overhead, life completely halts in the capital and people scurry into trenches or stand in doorways with woolen shawls over their heads, ostrichlike. Be cause of the Kashmir mountains, the radar in the area does not pick up Indian planes until they are about 15 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Bangladesh: Out of War, a Nation Is Born | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

...competition clutch, with four on the floor yeah, She purrs like a kitten till the lake pipes roar . . . She's my little deuce coupe; you don't know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Putting the Mustang Out to Pasture | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...Betsy into production. It does not seem more than usually absurd that in due course Loren III becomes furious and hires crooks to sabotage his own firm. There is a lot of sex, much of it involving a lady test driver who combusts spontaneously whenever she hears the roar of an engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Internal Combustion | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

Righteous Lard. A line like that never sounds like a howler on paper, but in the theater it brings the house to a roar. Which is a tribute to the palpable miracles of timing and inflection that a director like Mike Nichols and an actor like Peter Falk can produce out of their sheer unfaltering professionalism. Falk is perfectly cast. He has just the right sag to the shoulders and a face that a mirror would wince at in the morning. Lee Grant is tart, perky and warmly sympathetic. Vincent Gardenia is a pillar of righteous, lard and quivers hysterically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Cliff Dwellers' Purgatory | 11/22/1971 | See Source »

...really rolling after its fourth consecutive victory last Saturday, and a victory over Penn could do little for the pessimistic fortunes of the Bulldog. Dartmouth had to be the worst undefeated team in the East until last week; and now Princeton is the last three-loss squad. Tigers roar...

Author: By Robert W. Geblach, | Title: A Touch of Garlic | 11/13/1971 | See Source »

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