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When we were kids, Bob Cousy the basketball player was someone we knew about only from the exalted tones with which our fathers talked of him. Most of his career was in the fifties, when the NBA was still a shoestring operation. We only saw him in action when local...
"I will conquer and subjugate the world," says Sun Myung Moon. "I am your brain." The latter statement is quite literally true for a growing coterie of young American converts, who regard the South Korean cult leader (TIME, Sept. 30, 1974) as the second Christ. Asking no questions, they obediently...
A popular travel book this summer is London on $500 a Day (Macmillan; $7.95), a not-so-whimsical guide for "the well-heeled sybarite." In a season when sybarites, and a lot of other people, are staying home in herds, the book has not notably eased Harold Wilson's...
Baked Potato. Made on a shoestring budget that does not seem to have caused anyone much difficulty, Death Race 2000 is a jaunty, funny, bemusedly tense little action picture. It was obviously intended to scoop Rollerball, a more costly and similar science-fiction enterprise (TIME, July 7) and it commits...
Off camera, Robertson, 45, is president of the Christian Broadcasting Network, which owns stations in Dallas and Atlanta as well as Portsmouth. There are also 35 affiliated stations round the country on which Robertson buys time to air the 700 Club and his other Christian programs ranging from Bible lessons...