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Until recently, independence had been an issue for only a few malcontents. Now and then somebody would scrawl the initials F.L.A.-for Frentede Libertação Açoriana, the Azorian Liberation Front-across a road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Azores: Unrest in a Way Station | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

Because writing was specifically proscribed by prison rules, Speer had to work on his memoirs secretly. Using sheets of toilet tissue, the backs of calendar pages and scraps of note paper, he wrote in an almost indecipherably small scrawl. Then he hid the notes under the sole lining of a shoe or inside a bandage kept wrapped around a leg to relieve his phlebitis. To smuggle out the scraps, Speer had the help of a few friendly guards. One of them was a Dutchman who served as a forced laborer in German factories during the war, but received what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: 13,175 Miles Around the Yard | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

...Harvard that are true but seem somewhat abstract. Harvard's just been around so long that it's relatively easy to think about it as solid, consistent and unchanging. The plaque on the Lowell belltower may say Cognosce Occasionem--like the "Seize the time" Black Panther sympathizers used to scrawl on black boards in high school--but Harvard seems so much less transient than any high school, and its walls so far removed from the prisons where the government used to throw the Panthers, that the plaque hardly has much effect...

Author: By Seth M. Kupeerberg, | Title: After Four Long Years, Reflections on Departure | 6/11/1975 | See Source »

...Wall Scrawl. "The fetid 10 ft. by 10 ft. cell was windowless, barred and infested with cockroaches, fleas and mosquitoes," Robins later reported of his temporary residence. "A single yellowed bulb in the ceiling burned throughout the night as all the dogs in Christendom howled round us. On the cracked wall opposite the bed there had been scrawled in two-inch letters, MAN WILL DIE BUT THE CAUSE WILL LIVE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Fighting Rebels And Royalists | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...Blood Scrawl. The gruesome similarities between the Tate and LaBianca killings were striking: "Pig" was printed in blood on the front door of the Tate house, "Death to Pigs" on a wall at the LaBiancas. Yet the separate teams of detectives assigned to the two cases chose to ignore each other. A day after the first murders, two members of the L.A. sheriffs office told a police department detective of a strange case in their territory: a murder and a message ("Political Piggy") scrawled in blood. Furthermore, the sheriff had a suspect in custody, a member of a roving group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anatomy of an Outrage | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

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