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When the pianist strikes up the "Butterfly" Etude, the performers appear with wings and antennae. A girl twirls daintily forward through two converging rows of dancers; when the lines part, there she lies-splat-on the stage floor. The pianist, his repertoire and his patience exhausted, suddenly grabs a huge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Satire and Slapstick | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

Whatever was happening behind the scenes, the U.N. General Assembly soon reverted to its favorite public activity, speechmaking. The Chinese, all neatly uniformed in Mao tunics, sat in stoic silence as delegate after delegate droned on about a Soviet proposal for an all-nation summit conference on disarmament. The Yugoslav...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Peking's Wordy Debut | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

At Prudhoe Bay alone, almost 165 miles of 48-in. pipe lay stacked in seemingly endless rows of 60-ft. sections. The pipe is supposed to be used for construction of the 789-mile trans-Alaska pipeline by the Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., which was formed last year by seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Dealing with a Northern Sheik | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

Lieut. Colonel Anthony B. Herbert wanted to be a soldier so badly that he ran away at age 14 to enlist. He was caught and sent home, but except for time out to finish high school and earn a college degree, he has been a soldier ever since. And no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MILITARY: Colonel Herbert v. the Army | 11/22/1971 | See Source »

After breakfast Ivan and his work group go off to a construction sight two miles away to lay bricks. The guards bark at them to march in rows of five and to the sound of ringing bells a long column of dark suited men walk against the snow and sky...

Author: By Gilbert B. Kaplan, | Title: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | 11/20/1971 | See Source »

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