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...they tried to hold a birthday party, and when the cake was banned from court, one defendant cried out: "They've arrested your cake!" At one point a defense attorney threw himself across a table and tearfully implored the judge: "Put me in jail, for God's sake, and get me out of this place." As for the judge, he addressed the defendants with irony and invective. Besides being almost unbelievably chaotic, the trial lasted five months and cost at least $2,000,000. One of the main charges against the seven antiwar activists: conspiring to cross state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: End of a Futile Case? | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

...result is a film going in too many directions, none of them resolved. For Jeson's sake, David has tagged along skeptically, ever bashfully peering through smudged glasses and trailing a dowdy muffer, But jason turns out to be a second rate front men for a black mobster and is out. Smarted in a shady real estate deal. Sally realizes that her conquette heyday has long since passed and panic brings her to borderline insanity. The sexually insecure David wallows in nervous in-irosprection, and lets the dream linger too long. For Sally hysterically plows four bullets into jason...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Marvin Gardens | 11/28/1972 | See Source »

...overdue and necessary. It will be no small achievement if he can overcome all the built-in obstacles to governmental change. Beyond that the hope is that the end result will be not only a saving of money and a tinkering with the machinery of Government for its own sake, but that the streamlined machine will really be used to cope with the pressing national concerns that persist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Shaking Up the Bureaucrats | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

Conflict. For the sake of campus peace, white administrators seem willing to tolerate a quiet separation of the races. They take satisfaction in the absence of open racial conflict, and they predict that self-segregation will go away by itself, though Elliot Soloman, a white junior at Columbia, points out: "There's no tension if there's no contact." Other administrators minimize the existence of self-segregation by describing it in euphemisms. Thus John Bunzel, president of California State University at San Jose, calls it "self-development," while at Barnard, Housing Director Blanche Lawton justifies reserving two dormitory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Two Societies | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

...help lower blood cholesterol, ease glaucoma and lessen nervous tension. Some doctors are recommending wine in weight-reducing diets. A 4-oz. glass of red, white or rosé wine contains just under 100 calories. As St. Paul advised Timothy: "Use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: American Wine Comes of Age | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

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