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...QUEEN AND I (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). A scheming purser (Larry Storch) meets his nemesis in Billy De Wolfe, who plays a first officer on the S.S. Amsterdam Queen, an ancient ocean liner steaming toward the scrap pile. Premiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 17, 1969 | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...regarding the Middle East situation." Tekoah continued, making a justifiable point that most Israelis felt summed up their case: "Is the single life of the Israeli engineer killed in Athens worth less than all the metal and wire and upholstery destroyed in Beirut? Are we to hear that the scrap iron of airplanes is worth more than Jewish blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE RISKS OF REPRISAL | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

Nixon would like to shift Operation Head Start, one of the few major successes of the war on poverty, to HEW. The poverty program's effort to furnish legal aid to the poor may be assigned to the Justice Department. Nixon and Moynihan would also like to scrap the Job Corps, which they consider inefficient. But he would need congressional approval for such steps-sanction that would not be easily obtained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Administration: Easing Into Power | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...that he wore a stolen Israeli policeman's uniform, drove a small, British-built delivery van to .the market, and parked it while armed terrorists covered him from nearby hiding spots. The van was loaded with 300 Ibs. of TNT, 30 Ibs. of gelignite and several cases of scrap metal to serve as shrapnel, all topped by beer bottles filled with a mixture of oil and gasoline. He set a small, pencil-shaped fuse timed to explode an hour later, and was three-quarters of a mile away when he heard the blast. He escaped by hiking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Catalogue of Violence | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...placed his new figures in real environments. He grouped diners'around a real table, put a truck driver behind a real steering wheel. For his Subway, he discovered that the Transit Authority was about to scrap a car, and trucked it to his old chicken barn, which he now uses as a studio. Dismembered, refurbished, equipped with programmed flashing lights and one lone girl passenger rapt in some dream of her own, Subway now transforms one wall of the Janis gallery into a vivid simulation of the flickering trauma of underground travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Presences in Plaster | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

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