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...world 'just like that,'" Kubin once declared. "In moments of strange half-wakefulness I am astounded to behold its transmutations, which are often almost imperceptible, so that in my first stage of awareness they are seldom clearly seen, but must be groped for and gradually hunted...
...that President Nixon has switched to a new and more activist economic policy, there is rising criticism of the man who provided the intellectual backing for the old one. Milton Friedman, 58, a bouncy, bantam-size economist, has seldom been a more controversial oracle than at present. Friedman argues that, because it is based on uncertain statistics and fallible judgments, Government tinkering with the economy is more likely to cause harm than good. He insists that the best policy would call for a sure and steady expansion of the nation's money supply at an annual rate of about...
...course of each week, TIME correspondents are accustomed to covering everything from concerts to Cabinet meetings, from labor strikes to society soirees. Seldom have they been faced with an assignment as grim as that demanded of them by this week's cover story on prisons: to provide nation's editors in New York with an inside look at some of the nation's jails and penitentiaries...
...cliches are worn but enduring: Italian Catholics seldom go to church but worship the Pope. German Catholics are fond enough of church, but mostly in terms of the family and the home: the good German hausfrau is supposed to dedicate herself with equal concern to Kinder, Kuche and Kirche-children, kitchen and church. Now two new polls-a major study of Catholics in Rome and a massive poll of West German Catholics-challenge the validity of the old clichés. Germans show a deeper spiritual sensitivity and more concern for their fellow man than they are generally given credit...
...course of play is seldom a one-way flow. Fumbles, interceptions. field goals, and the "long bomb," among other things, can punctuate the game and turn it around. The long touchdown pass (an interesting symbol of cooperation between White Quarterback and Black Wide Receiver) is both the most exciting coup de theatre in sports and a revolutionary possibility liable to explode without warning. Finally, when the charisma is flowing, even time itself can be overcome: by time-outs, running out of bounds, incomplete forward passes, etc, the clock can be made obedient to human wishes...