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Islam and Socialism. Not so easily dismissed is the volatile combination of riotous students and their champion, ex-Minister Bhutto. A compelling orator, Bhutto is the scion of a powerful Pakistani family, and a graduate of both Berkeley and Oxford. He joined Ayub's first Cabinet at 30. As Foreign Minister from 1963 to 1966, Bhutto took a belligerent line with India, and engineered Pakistan's "Red shift" toward China and away from the U.S. He was the most popular man in the Cabinet by 1966, when Ayub sacked him in order to bring Pakistan back toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: It's Part of Life | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

Hail to thee, glorious scion of the Hellenic land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning Poems | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

Everybody (well, nearly everybody) has heard of mad King Ludwig II, the eccentric scion of the Wittelsbachs, who dotted Bavaria's picturesque hilltops with an insanely extravagant clatch of castles, pavilions, hideaways and other architectural follies in the 1870s and 1880s. Was he totally deranged? Not according to Dr. Michael Petzet, 35, the Munich art historian who oversees Bavaria's state-run castle-museums (including Ludwig's). Petzet, pointing out that Ludwig was the patron of Richard Wagner, sees the king as "a creator in his own right, someone who aimed to fulfill what Wagner understood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Eclectic Eccentric | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...great beginning-especially since Detective Joe Leland is Frank Sinatra, playing it cool and tough, with hardly ever a smile on his sad, slightly sagging face. The corpse on the floor is none other than Theodore Leikman Jr., homosexual scion of a big-city big shot, and the first problem is to find his roommate, identity unknown. Joe, who has just solved two homicides in one week and is in line for promotion to lieutenant despite his contemptuous treatment of political brass, is soon cruising the gay bars, thrusting a police drawing in the fags' faces and asking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Detective | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...blue-eyed Englishman arrives at the KGB headquarters at No. 2 Dzerzhinsky Square to pursue his duties as "chief adviser" in Russian espionage against Britain, the Commonwealth and the U.S. He is well equipped for the job. As the most successful double agent of modern times, Kim Philby O.B.E., scion of the British Establishment, Cambridge University, would very likely now be the head of the British Secret Service had he not been discovered and forced to flee to Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Kindly Superspy | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

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