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...nudge upward the biblical allotment of threescore years and ten, and we are already halfway there. But we are in the middle in another sense as well. We stand between the two angry lines of what has become a war of the generations. The middle in any war is seldom safe ground, but when we look at today's angry, frustrated youth and their equally angry, frustrated parents, the middle-what Journalist Renata Adler, 31, calls the "radical middle"-is where we would elect...
...youths at random from a Tel Aviv street, no more than one would qualify for pilot training. Those who make it are rarely the hard-drinking, fast-living flyboys of fiction. TIME Correspondent John Shaw, visiting one base, described them as members of "an orange-juice air force that seldom drinks except when occasions like a promotion, new baby or visiting dignitary call for everyone to knock back a Scotch." Pilots are rarely publicized, even though a ranking ace has now shot down eleven Arab planes. The reason for anonymity is not so much to prevent any personality cult...
...Vice Chairman Alfred Perlman and Finance Committee Chairman David Bevan. Next day, fearful that the collapse of so large a corporation might bring down other companies in the shaky economy, the Nixon Administration took unusual action in order to rescue the ailing railroad from the brink of bankruptcy. Under seldom-used powers of the Defense Production Act, the Defense Department agreed to guarantee up to $200 million in short-term bank loans for the road...
...count exactly how much it was worth. His middle name was King, and he came as close to being a monarch as the U.S. allows. When he died last week at 70, of heart disease, U.S. industry in general, and Pittsburgh business specifically, lost a presence that was seldom seen but often felt...
...interests gave the Mellons a resonant voice in just about every Pittsburgh-based company except U.S. Steel. The family's policy was to reign rather than command, and its members -who include Mellon's cousins and nephews-stepped in only when management changes seemed necessary, which was seldom. Mellon himself picked many of the top managers, and they knew that he had veto power over their major decisions...