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However, U.S. analysts believe Brezhnev may be amenable to Kissinger's arguments. Said one high American official: "You can be sure that Brezhnev is reluctant to throw away ten years of detente for the sake of a client in Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Kissinger's Rescue Mission | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...stretches in strangle middle-sized cities where it seems like the whole game, no matter how much you love it (and they all do, whether they bitch all Page 12/Dump Truck the time or not, Brayton says), is deferred gratification: you aren't playing minor league for its own sake, ever--it's always to get noticed, to make it big, to break through...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: In Another League Now | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...their fellow Chicago Blackhawks could cramp the style of Ernie, Bert, Grover, Big Bird and Cookie Monster. The Sesame Street regulars (played by Shipstads & Johnson's Ice Follies skaters) showed up in Chicago last week for a strictly fun hockey match against the Blackhawks-all for the sake of the team's annual Christmas party. While 80 of the players' wives, children and friends looked on, the Hawks lost the match when Big Bird grabbed the puck in his beak and tossed it in for the winning goal. And how would the animals fare against the Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 5, 1976 | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

...confronted in a bedroom of the villa by Interior Minister Oufkir and by two other Moroccans. All three carried pistols. "Who gave you the authorization for what you are doing?" Ben Barka demanded angrily. Replied Oufkir: "We are here in the name of our master and for the sake of Morocco." For several minutes, the three Moroccans carried on a loud argument with their prisoner. Then one of them said: "Let's finish this comedy. You were sentenced to death in Morocco. Now you're going to get it." At that a shot rang out and Ben Barka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: The Murder of Mehdi Ben Barka | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...people in Appalachia, the Ozarks, and Ohio. When he didn't photograph people, he photographed the artifacts which were closest to them--the circus posters which advertised their entertainments or their hand-painted signs with messages like "This is the car HOOVER promised ME, ROOSEVELT gave ME, FOR GODS SAKE DON'T LET LANDON TAKE IT AWAY." The only difference between his subjects and the ones which fill thousands of snapshot albums is that none of Shahn's people could have afforded to keep an album of their...

Author: By Bob Ely, | Title: Candid Camera | 12/18/1975 | See Source »

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